Dear Friends,

Is there any way to block incoming emails with attachments or move them in specified directory on.

Can anybody help?

Yours
kam

Yes, there are many ways to do this and the methods vary depending on the MTA. Which MTA are you using?

Hi,

I've just found a nifty looking procmail recipe on redhat's seawolf mailing list

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* !^FROM_DAEMON
* .*Content-Disposition:.*attachment
* .*filename="[^\"]+.(bat|com|lnk|pif|vbs)"
{
:0
| echo `date` vb script or sircom >> /root/blocked

:0
/root/mail/blockedmail
}


This script checks for emails with potentially dangerous attachments.

I'm just about to try it out myself


Andy H

Hi Neo,

We are using sendmail as MTA.

Can you tell some way of doing it using sendmail?

Thanks
Kam

Hi Neo,

We are using sendmail as MTA.

Can you tell some way of doing it using sendmail configuration?

Thanks
Kam

Hi Kamlakar,

You'll want to add the procmail recipe to procmail's global script file, this is normally /etc/procmailrc.

A basic sample procmailrc file follows:

PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:.
LOGFILE=/log/procmail.log
LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail


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* !^FROM_DAEMON
* .*Content-Disposition:.*attachment
* .*filename="[^\"]+.(bat|com|lnk|pif|vbs)"
{
:0
| echo `date` vb script or sircom >> /root/blocked

:0
/root/mail/blockedmail
}



Andy H