For some reason (braindead as I may be), I can't seem to find any other
reference to "Tim's absolutely great recipe" -- can someone point me
in the correct direction, or just email me a copy of the recipe and
associated files?
*blush* I'm flattered, but the credit really belongs to Philip Guenther,
who crafted the design.
# You should define things like "$HOME", "$FORMAIL", "$PMDIR", "$PMDIRp",
# and "$EGREP" as appropriate for your system.
# The PROCMAIL working (and private) directories.
PMDIR=$HOME/Procmail
PMDIRp=$PMDIR/Private
FORMAIL=/usr/local/nuglops/bin/formail
EGREP=$HOME/Bin/grep
FROM=`$FORMAIL -rt -xTo:`
# This recipe checks to see if this email is "From" a known lamer (i.e.,
# Is this lamer in my "list-of-bastards"?). If so, the email is bounced
# back via a SENDMAIL EXITCODE and the headers of the email are saved/
# GZIPped in a file so I can examine it later. I used to bounce this
# stuff back with a generic nastygram, but with all the forged headers,
# I was getting a bunch of bounced emails. I then set it up so email from
# certain domains got bounced to *specific* addresses, but that ended up
# being too much work. PROCMAIL is supposed to make my life *easier* so
# I decided to go with this SENDMAIL EXITCODE bounce which seems to work
# quite nicely. Oh, my "list-of-bastards" is kept private -- you don't
# really want all of NetCom to see *your* name in it, now do you :^}?
#
# From the sendmail source code:
#
# /* 64 USAGE */ " 500 Bad usage",
# /* 65 DATAERR */ " 501 Data format error",
# /* 66 NOINPUT */ ":550 Cannot open input",
# /* 67 NOUSER */ " 550 User unknown",
# /* 68 NOHOST */ " 550 Host unknown",
# /* 69 UNAVAILABLE */ " 554 Service unavailable",
# /* 70 SOFTWARE */ ":554 Internal error",
# /* 71 OSERR */ ":451 Operating system error",
# /* 72 OSFILE */ ":554 System file missing",
# /* 73 CANTCREAT */ ":550 Can't create output",
# /* 74 IOERR */ ":451 I/O error",
# /* 75 TEMPFAIL */ " 250 Deferred",
# /* 76 PROTOCOL */ " 554 Remote protocol error",
# /* 77 NOPERM */ ":550 Insufficient permission",
# /* 78 CONFIG */ " 554 Local configuration error",
#
#
# NOTE: This recipe will FAIL if you try and use the standard GREP/EGREP
# on NetCom; it is unable to handle files of this length. I have
# GNU Grep v2.0 in my $HOME/Bin directory which CAN handle it and
# EGREP is defined earlier (even though it's in my PROCMAIL PATH).
#
# NOTE #2: SENDMAIL EXITCODES will not work properly unless the format
# of your "~/.forward" file is written properly (e.g., you
# must not allow PROCMAIL to "fail softly"). For the proper
# format, check out "~bodysurf/.forward".
#
BASTARDLIST=$PMDIRp/list-of-bastards
:0
* ? echo "$FROM" | $EGREP -i -f $BASTARDLIST
{
EXITCODE = 77
:0h:
| gzip -fc >> $PMDIRp/headers.gz
}
#
# Stop lamers who intentionally try to get by my PROCMAIL "bastard" list.
# This recipe bounces at the (should be obvious) "Received:", "From" and
# "Reply*" headers' level rather than merely the "From" level (as the
# prior recipe does). As in the above recipe, the headers of these emails
# are saved and GZIPped for later review.
#
# NOTE: I was considering EGREPping a list of domains as in the above
# recipe, but I think I will keep things like this as for now. It
# seems to be easier to do this way.
#
# NOTE #2: Put your list of "jerks" in the second line of the recipe
# below:
#
:0
* ^(Received|From|Re(ply|turn)).*jerk
{
EXITCODE = 77
:0h:
| gzip -fc >> $PMDIRp/headers.gz
}
#
# Kill off emails from lamers who use the bulk-email program "Floodgate".
#
:0
* ^X-Mailer: Floodgate
{
EXITCODE = 77
:0h:
| gzip -fc >> $PMDIRp/headers.gz
}
Thanks!
[snip]
Chris H. Kurtz (chk(_at_)primenet(_dot_)com) Primenet Network Operations
[snip]
On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Dave Robbins wrote:
I started using Tim's absolutely great recipe for bouncing unwanted trash
from spammers and bozos. After seeing how well it worked, I gave it
to others. One undergrad, however, created the recipe *without*
adding anything to the killfile (email.killfile, in this case).
This somehow matched all mail coming to the undergrad.
Lates!
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