> > My secalert account for these lists is being drenched with 40 to 70 > > of these fake Microsoft Update emails per day. > > My filters on my client dump them to a Junk folder, but I would > > prefer it if my Exim filter would do the job at the server level > > instead. I am running Nigel Metheringham's system_filter.exim. > > > > The single part MIME filter doesn't seem to catch it though. What > > are others on this list using or doing to blatently block this > > stuff? There is no valid .exe I could receive, ever. > > I (re)started reading via webmail for purging the mails on the > popserver. > There might be much more comfortable ways and much more efficient ways > but I don't want to rebuild the whole mailing-system after the traffic > has disappeared.
Hi, same problem here. Solution has been discussed on debian-laptop :-) 2 days ago. Here's the solution given by Georg Sauthoff : "those Microsoft Outlook (Express)/Internet Explorer users who give a sh** about security || privacy really sucks. Specially Microsoft extremely sucks, because they make such worms etc. possible. So I updated my mailfilter config: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/~gsauthoff/mailfilterrc (the regular expression catches nearly every 150 KB Message - but false-positives are always possible) Mailfilter deletes the messages at the pop3 server wihout downloading. " I checked it out (apt-get install mailfilter) on my system and it works great ! 170 emails removed today, 20Mb less to download ! So if your're fetching your emails from a POP account, that's the solution. If you're using some other method for getting your emails, I think that some identical rules should do the job in fetchmail|exim|qmail|whatever Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
