Spam filtering

Jason Crowe jcrowe at cmuonline.net
Mon Sep 8 13:59:50 CDT 2003


Post the relavent section of your log file and it'll probably tell you 
what (if anything) is wrong.

Jason
Chris Wagner wrote:

> We're running Postfix on a Yellow Dog 3.0 install and I have created a 
> .procmailrc (as suggested by a very gracious member here with full 
> attachment clipping - thanks so much) and a .forward file for a single 
> unix account user. I sent a couple of test messages to that user 
> account with a small .exe file attached and the recipe seemed to work 
> like a charm, but I have a question.
>
> As far as I can tell, the recipe calls for stripping the attachment 
> based on specified type and then dumping the message in a 
> .messages-rejected directory.
>
> However, when I check the directory itself, I find no instance of 
> anything there......
>
> Should I be seeing any data in that directory when a message is run 
> through the procmail filtering and thrown in that directory?
>
> Here's the contents of the file:
>
> VERBOSE=off
> LOGABSTRACT=yes
> LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log
> COMSAT=no
>
> :0 B
> *^Content-Type: (application|audio)
> *^.*name=.*.(vb[esx]|ws[hf]|c[ho]m|bat|cmd|hta|exe|lnk|pif|scr|shs)
> .messages-rejected/
>
> ## subject lines with 'adv' or 'advertisement' or some other variation
> :0:
> * ^Subject: [?ADV.*]?
> /var/log/spam
>
> Thanks, all.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>




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