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[ILUG] email security through procmail

[ILUG] email security through procmail

Donncha O Caoimh donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com
Mon Mar 29 12:28:22 IST 1999


No, there's a | before the perl command in the recipe. I have it working
almost - it logs suspicious stuff to users directories (as in the
original docs) but I'd really prefer it would log to /var/log/procmail.
It also doesn't stop the infected emails getting through either :(

Donncha.

Lars Hecking wrote:
> 
> Donncha O Caoimh writes:
> > I spent a good few minutes trying to install the procmail kit from
> > ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/antispam/procmail-security.html
> > but I keep getting the following error in /var/log/procmail:
> > No -e allowed in setuid scripts.
> > procmail: Error while writing to " perl -p -e ' #\
> 
>  This looks like procmail is trying to write to " perl -p -e ..."
>  instead of piping through the perl script. Hard to tell without
>  actully seeing the recipe. Could be omitting the "|" at the start
>  of the action line, or missing flags. Or an error in the action line.




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