Why send that message to one of my posts? Why not send it to
one of the other people who are continuing this thread?

Please, enlighten us..

Which is more off topic - your post or mine?

Sorry - I should have changed the subject to
How To Remain Under my 5Gig cap when I get 250MBytes of
mail a day and still want to "use" the internet.

Chrissy.
PS - the people "IN" this discussion do not appear to post from
real e-mail addys as messaged to them bounce and I do not know
if they subscribe to the chat list.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Phillips" <steve@focb.co.nz>
To: "Chrissy" <ChrissyR@home.gen.nz>; "ADSL" <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: JetStream bill for a several thousand dollars

> Without being 100% certain, I am sure that this sort of thing would be
> better suited either for the chat list or a procmail list.
>
> Unless of course you can explain where procmail setup files relate to ADSL.
>
> Please, enlighten us..
>
> --
> Steve.
>
> At 08:34 p.m. 11/10/2003, Chrissy wrote:
> >In your file you have this comment
> ># Run with e.g.:
> ># LISTFOLDER=somepath/virus-rubbish
> ># INCLUDERC=yourpath/virusnotification.rc
> ># or
> ># LISTFOLDER=
> ># INCLUDERC=yourpath/virusnotification.rc
> ># :0
> ># * ISVIRUSNOTIFICATION ?? ^^1^^
> ># { ... }
> ># in your $HOME/.procmailrc (you can leave out LISTEMAIL if it's the same as
> ># LISTNAME).
> >
> >
> >Can I just use your file as my .procmailrc file and add these lines to it
> >
> >LISTFOLDER=/dev/null
> >LOGFILE=mail-deleted.log
> >
> >as I am happy to delete these e-mails. What I am trying to do is get rid
> >of them from the server as FAST as I can. Is there anything in your
> >file which cannot be there if it is not an include file?
> >
> >What I am using now is
> >
> >#Delete emails but make a log of it
> >LOGFILE=mail-deleted.log
> >VERBOSE=true
> >
> >:0
> >* cr@home.gen.nz
> >* ^Content-Type: multipart/
> >* > 100000
> >/dev/null
> >
> >
> >A lot cruder than yours but it does most of what I want - yours will do
> >it all. I would also add a few more sections to it as there are a few more
> >e-mails I want to delete.
> >
> >Chrissy.
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Volker Kuhlmann" <list0570@paradise.net.nz>
> >To: <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
> >Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 5:43 PM
> >Subject: Re: JetStream bill for a several thousand dollars
> >
> >
> > > ----- Forwarded message from Volker Kuhlmann <hidden@paradise.net.nz> -----
> > >
> > > From: Volker Kuhlmann <hidden@paradise.net.nz>
> > > Subject: Re: JetStream bill for a several thousand dollars
> > > Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 17:24:22 +1300
> > > To: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
> > >
> > > > I am trying to write a .procmailrc file to stop them before I
> > download them
> > > > as I believe that I will blow my 5 Gig cap if I am not careful. I am
> > not getting
> > >
> > > I made a procmail filter which tags (and optionally saves) all this
> > > virus-related cr*p, including dumb notifications like I sent someone
> > > one. It's been very successful and approaches 100% hit rate after 2
> > > more days of fine-tuning. Meant to be used with INCLUDERC=
> > >
> > > http://volker.dnsalias.net/soft/procmail/virusnotification.rc
> > >
> > > It does however need the whole email for mst of the tests. I am not
> > > sure about what kind of header-only filter would match these virus
> > > emails. There simply is no reliable pattern in the headers. The
> > > subject: changes all the time, the from: is usually bogus and dumping
> > > everything from @microsoft.com is not what you want to do.
> > >
> > > I don't see how the suggested mime header check for postfix could
> > > possibly work, the mime-headers you want to look at, like
> > >
> > > Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name="cpbs.com"
> > >
> > > are all in the body, the email header only contains
> > >
> > > Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> > >
> > > so you will have to read the whole email in the first place. Or is
> > > postfix able to repeat the header check as soon as it has read the
> > > start of each mime part, and skipping the remaining body as soon as it
> > > enounters the x-wav? This wouldn't skip the whole body, but the bulk of
> > > it.
> > >
> > > Volker
> > >
> > > --
> > > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header
> > > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
> > >
> > > ----- End forwarded message -----
> > >
> > > --
> > > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header
> > > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
> > >
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