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asked on
firewall about mails
i want to know whether there are some firewall that can
reject those mails with known virus or special content bef
ore mail server accept them? if has,where can i find it?
thank you
reject those mails with known virus or special content bef
ore mail server accept them? if has,where can i find it?
thank you
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Oops, above url had a period at the end of it .. try http://securityportal.com/virus/linuxsoftware.html .
ASKER
To dorward:
ok,it seems that Procmail is a independent software that
i should install,but as i known,/usr/bin/procmail is a part
of SENDMAIL,is this related with that Procmail software in
your surgestion ? thanks a lot
To ifincham:
thank you for your advice,but i could not visit that URL
you gave me,it always show me "no DNS name" sth like that.
ok,it seems that Procmail is a independent software that
i should install,but as i known,/usr/bin/procmail is a part
of SENDMAIL,is this related with that Procmail software in
your surgestion ? thanks a lot
To ifincham:
thank you for your advice,but i could not visit that URL
you gave me,it always show me "no DNS name" sth like that.
Procmail is a seperate program but your system might package it with sendmail (and sendmail must be configured to use it).
The system works a little like this:
Incoming mail goes to sendmail
sendmail is configured to pass it on to procmail for local dilevery
procmail checks for a ~/.procmailrc and /etc/procmailrc file and acts on their insturctions
If they don't exist it just puts the mail in the normal mail spool.
The system works a little like this:
Incoming mail goes to sendmail
sendmail is configured to pass it on to procmail for local dilevery
procmail checks for a ~/.procmailrc and /etc/procmailrc file and acts on their insturctions
If they don't exist it just puts the mail in the normal mail spool.
ASKER
oh,dorward:
thanks a lot,i found that my system really has installed
procmail RPM package,but i don't find any "procmailrc" file
coming with this RPM package,should i create it by myself?
anyway,i will accept your answer before you reply this
message.
BTW,i went to "http://slashdot.org/" and found it's hard
to find what i want,do you have any idea?
say thanks again, have a nice day.
thanks a lot,i found that my system really has installed
procmail RPM package,but i don't find any "procmailrc" file
coming with this RPM package,should i create it by myself?
anyway,i will accept your answer before you reply this
message.
BTW,i went to "http://slashdot.org/" and found it's hard
to find what i want,do you have any idea?
say thanks again, have a nice day.
I'm not quite sure of the file for a global procmail config file (I use a user only one), its also quite tricky to set up. Consult the documentation to sort this one.
A google search is a good way, for example:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=procmail+SirCam
turns up:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3674/1/
as the first link and this includes the following procmail recipe:
:0 D
* ^Content-Type:
* multipart.*"----[A-F0-9]+_
/home/mph/Mail/things_to_r
Which filters any SirCam mails.
A google search is a good way, for example:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=procmail+SirCam
turns up:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3674/1/
as the first link and this includes the following procmail recipe:
:0 D
* ^Content-Type:
* multipart.*"----[A-F0-9]+_
/home/mph/Mail/things_to_r
Which filters any SirCam mails.
ASKER
thank you very much.i will check it though
Have a look at http://securityportal.com/virus/linuxsoftware.html. This shows various email scanners available for sendmail / qmail, etc.
Regards