Thanks to:
Markus Korth <mkorth@systline.de>
Walter Reed <walter.reed@redherring.com>
Peter Watkins <peter@jrc.nl>
Daniel Luechtefeld" <wolucky@yahoo.com>
Joel.Lee@eConnections.com
Karl Vogel <vogelke@dnaco.net>
Todd Jensen <jensen@erim-int.com>
Jay Lessert <jayl@latticesemi.com>
Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
Darryl C Price <darrylp@earthlink.net>
Original message:
> I'm looking for some mechanism to deal with unwanted messages (eg viruses,
> get-rich-quick etc) sent to a solaris POPmail server. Specifically, I'd like
> to be able to either filter incoming mail or more likely (the world being
> what it is), clean out specific messages that meet some criteria from all
> mailboxes after the messages have been received.
>
> How difficult is this to implement thru sendmail.cf rules?
>
> Another alternative is procmail. The theory I tested is writting a script
> to do something like this (pardon the pseudo-code)
>
>
> for [ each user ]
> su - user
> mv /users/mbx /users/mbx.bad
> formail -s procmail myrules.rc </users/mbx.bad
> done
>
> How are others handling this?
===============================================================================
There were a variety of responses including:
- Use qmail (www.qmail.org)
- Use procmail as the local delivery agent (in sendmail.cf, use:
Mlocal, P=/usr/local/bin/procamil...
- see www.spambounder.org
- See www.sendmail.com/loveletter/patch/ and use similar rules
-See ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/antispam/procmail-security.html
- (a variety of other tools or sendmail replacements eg mirapoint, anomy mail
sanitizer)
I concluded that you really need two mechanisms. The first is something that
interfaces with a later, hardened version of sendmail to block KNOWN
"problem-children" from coming in in the first place. This assumes you know
what to look for. And this database would be somewhat dynamic. I'll likely
use either procmail as the local MTA or have sendmail pipe to procmail for
each user. The advantage of the latter is that I'd have finer granularity
on a user-by-user basis. OTOH, for ease of mainenance, I could have a single
.procmailrc with appropriate environment variables with all users linking to
it eg:
....
MAILDIR=/var/mail/$USER
:0
* ^Subject:.*GET RICH
/dev/null
....
The second mechanism would deal with as-yet-unknown, unwanted mail and
basically just post-process existing mailboxes as I described in my
original query.
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