If you don't have an /etc/procmailrc, or a ~/.procmailrc, you can create one, yourself with any editor. On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Atul, > > I could not locate 'procmailrc' > > # locate procmailrc > /usr/share/doc/procmail-3.22/examples/1procmailrc > /usr/share/doc/procmail-3.22/examples/2procmailrc > /usr/share/doc/procmail-3.22/examples/3procmailrc > /usr/share/doc/procmail-3.22/telsas_procmailrc > /usr/share/man/man5/procmailrc.5.gz > > # rpm -q procmail > procmail-3.22-9 > > Whether I need to setup/startup procmail first. I am running Evolution > 1.4 as my email software. What I need is keeping those virus out from > downloading to Evolution on clicking 'send/receive' > > Kindly advise. Thanks in advance. > > B.R. > Stephen Liu > > > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:47, Atul Chitnis wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Kevin Waterson wrote: > > > > > > Just using the Filesname rules, will protect your from being hurt deeply :) > > > > > > Can it be done without installing 3rd party software? > > > > The following rule in /etc/procmailrc or ~/.procmailrc seems to work just > > fine for me: > > > > :0 > > * ^(Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED|APPLICATION/octet-stream|audio/x-midi) > > { > > :0 HB > > * ^(Content-Disposition: attachment|inline) > > * name=".*\.(ocx|vbs|wsf|shs|exe|chm|pif|vbe|hta|scr)" > > /tmp/viruses.hold > > } > > > > Once you are comfortable with it (after examing /tmp/viruses.hold every > > now and then), replace /tmp/viruses.hold with /dev/null. > > > > Atul > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------- > > Atul Chitnis | achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Exocore Consulting | http://www.exocore.com > > Bangalore, India | +91 (80) 344-0397 > > ------------------------------------------- > > > > > To Get Your Own iCareHK.com Email Address? Go To www.iCareHK.com. > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list