[plug] System security

John Summerfield summer at os2.ami.com.au
Sat Sep 4 08:39:57 WST 1999


> In the spirit of making constructive suggestions, trying to help people
> and sharing (USEFUL/RELEVANT) information - for those who don't know,
> procmail can be a very useful tool:
> 
> type: cat > ~/.procmailrc
> then type:
> :0:
> *  ^From:.*bret at clearsol.iinet.net.au
> /dev/null
> 
> followed by a ^D.

This is bad advice. One should start
cat >> ~/.procmailrc

Even then, exercise some care; in my case all mail would be directed 
elsewhere before this recipe was found.-)
-- 
Cheers
John Summerfield
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