[ale] parental crisis

Bob Toxen bob at verysecurelinux.com
Mon Nov 25 23:41:12 EST 2002


On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:23:32PM -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I'm having a parental crisis. I need a quick and easy way to block email
> to and from a particular address. I of course own the email server
> (sendmail, stock config with RH8.0). 

> Pointers, exact code changes, etc. are welcome.

1. Use Procmail.

or

2. Use Sendmail, as discussed in p393-394 of RWLS 2/e, change "Subject"
   to "From:" and "ILOVEYOU" to the email address to block.

> -- 
> James P. Kinney III   \Changing the mobile computing world/
> President and CEO      \          one Linux user         /
> Local Net Solutions,LLC \           at a time.          /
> 770-493-8244             \.___________________________./

> GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics) <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
> Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7 

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