Re: spam-proofing my mhonarc archive

[Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>]

On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Earl Hood wrote:

> On February 15, 2003 at 12:37, Mark Stosberg wrote:
>
> > 1. Protect .mhonarc.db
> > First, I noticed that my ".mhonarc.db" was web-visible, and it
> > contained a handy list of e-mail addresses that could be grabbed by a
> > e-mail harvester. My first task was to move this out of web-space. Mhonarc no
> > w
> > supports this directly. I just had to move the file, and update my
> > .qmail file to add
> >
> > 	-dbfile /path/to/new/.mhonarc.db
>
> The FAQ mentions about .mhonarc.db.  Also, in v2.6.0, the file
> permissions for .mhonarc.db are no longer world readable, by default,
> and can be controled by the DBFILEPERMS resource.

Thanks for the response Earl.

I thought about using file permissions, but I'm using the SuExec
configuration with apache, so the the user running mhonarc and the user
running the webserver are the same.

  Mark

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