Scott Taylor wrote: > I use sendmail and procmail to filter incoming messages for spam and > windoze executable attachments. How can I filter outgoing mail? One possible approach: The easy part: change confSMTP_MAILER to a custom mailer (e.g. procmail invoked on a specialised procmailrc file) which performs the filtering then re-sends the message. See section 5.4 of the Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide (op.ps/op.txt) for details on writing the mailer definition. The hard (or, at least, awkward) part: preventing loops; you have to ensure that the re-sent message doesn't get sent back to the filter. Probably the simplest solution is to run two sendmail daemons (on separate ports), one which filters and one which doesn't. You can do it with one daemon, but that involves writing custom sendmail rulesets. Other approaches include using sendmail's "milter" API (you probably wouldn't want to use this directly, but there may be suitable products which use it to "plug in" to sendmail) or the header-matching features which were added in 8.10. -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@xxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
