Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS writes: > David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Somehow I've missed the start of Edmund's .procmailrc. But why wouldn't > > one do it this way rather than MD5 all that stuff manually? Have you > > found the message-id header to be that unreliable? > > Pointless paranoia really, but imagine this: someone could subscribe > to the same mailing list as you, with an address starting with 'a', so > they get the messages before you, then send you messages with the same > Message-ID as each message on the list. If their messages reach you > first, the real messages could be deleted by your formail script.
So you are protecting against a DoS? One where the perpetrator sticks out like a sore thumb? If that is the fear then use a separate formail dupe database for each mailing list or sort rule. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
