[Gllug] Spam

Tom Gilbert tom at linuxbrit.co.uk
Tue Feb 19 19:03:38 UTC 2002


* tet at accucard.com (tet at accucard.com) wrote:
> 
> >Not if your isp lets you put a procmail filter in at their end.  Uklinux 
> >does that, as do others.
> 
> Yikes! That's just asking for a DoS attack. Giving users access to procmail
> filtering through a safe GUI is a great idea, but I wouldn't want to give
> them access to a raw .procmailrc -- rather their business than mine :-)

Yeah but I'm pretty sure Uklinux gives people shells too, so having
access to a procmailrc doesn't really let them do anything worse than
they can do at a shell prompt.

Tom.
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