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Subject: Re: procmail
From: Ken Hardy <ken @ mailhost . bridge . com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:42:30 -0600 (CST)
To: mgetter @ advstaff . com, arjan @ pino . demon . nl
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM

Arjan Vos <arjan @
 pino .
 demon .
 nl> wrote:
>On Tue, 1 Apr 1997 mgetter @
 advstaff .
 com wrote:
>> Is it possible to utilize a utility such as Procmail to filter messages
>> passing through a Gauntlet Firewall?
>> 
>> 
>I'm not quiet sure what you mean by that. If you mean that procmail is
>used for security-based filtering I would say no. If procmail is used to
>filter messages which  have passed through the firewall (smap), thenI
>would say yes. But procmail only filters on a per used basis AFAIK.

There is a global procmail.rc file in /etc (which I haven't played with
much), but it only gets used when procmail gets invoked, which is
usually only when the local delivery agent gets called.  I doubt that
happens on the firewall much.

Depending on what you want to do, a clever sendmail config might do
whatever it is that you have in mind.  E.g., there are some fairly
simple ways to use sendmail as a spam filter
(http://spam.abuse.net/spam/tools/mailblock.html).

--
KH

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