email attack

Jason Joines joines
Mon May 17 11:53:58 PDT 2004


Chris Kassopulo wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> For the last two days I've gotten 100's of emails containing exe files.
> Bogus microsoft updates and patches.  Each piece is around 150k which
> makes for a long download on dialup.  Are there any filters that can
> delete emails at the server that have an exe attached.
> 
> I can put up with a little spam, but this is out of control.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Chris


   I had this same problem, then checked the procmail mailing list 
(nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.procmail) to see if anyone had a good 
recipe for it.
   I created a mail folder called null that is just a symbolic link to 
/dev/null and used this recipe that works great.

# swen
:0 B:
* 
^ZGUuDQ0KJAAAAAAAAAB\+i6hSOurGATrqxgE66sYBQfbKATvqxgG59sgBLerGAdL1zAEA6sYBWPXV
null


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