[ILUG] yet more procmail

( Admin ) bryan admin at revoltingdigits.com
Thu Apr 15 20:21:08 IST 2004


Hmmm ... I thought that this would be easy but it doesn't seem to be .

Here is the scenario

A number of virus emails out there forge the from address when sending 
their crap to everyone.

My 100% open source system uses clam anti virus along with trashscan.

When a virus is sent into my system trashscan is invoked via a procmail 
recipe.

The person who sent a virus is sent an email notifying them of this fact.

If the from address was forged the user will then receive an email 
telling her that the message could
not be delivered.

I don't want them ever to see these crappy emails.

So I tried putting the following in the procmailrc

snip=
:0
* ^Subject:.*Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender.*
* Subject:.*Suspicious Attachment.*
 > /dev/null
=snip

What I am trying to catch is a message sent into the system with a 
subject line of
"Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender"

Then further down in the body ( my original you sent a virus email ) 
there should be
some text that says "Subject: Suspicious Attachment"

Am I being incredibly stupid ? It doesn't seem to be catching them at all .

Oh yeah I'm using Maildir so no need for lock files

--B





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