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Re: procmail security issue

1997-07-21 10:07:00
Tom Deering <tmd(_at_)deering(_dot_)org> writes:
It seems my ISP has some security measures in place to plug the sendmail
hole.  If I try to execute any program or script, it fails, like this:

procmail: Match on "^From: .*Tom"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER= ls>poop"
From tmd(_at_)deering(_dot_)org  Mon Jul 21 11:37:38 1997
Subject: Hey!
 Folder:  ls>poop                                                601
procmail: Executing " ls>poop"
procmail: Notified comsat: "deering@: ls>poop"
bin/sh: bin/sh: cannot open

Won't run formail, sendmail, mail or nothing.  Now, if they have blocked
this for security reasons, is there a way for me to bounce mail another
way?  I'm just trying to autorespond to mail, nothing complicated.

Try putting

        SHELL = /bin/sh

at the top of your .procmailrc, then try it all again.


Philip Guenther

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