[Nottingham] chrooted procmail

Mike Cardwell mike at blubbernet.com
Sat Sep 3 01:08:41 BST 2005


Simon Amor wrote:

>> I want to limit it to purely checking for headers, and then writing  
>> to a different maildir. Once I have that, I can add other  executables 
>> to the bin directory as needed.
> How about just using the exim filter language instead and do away  with 
> procmail?

I don't know exim filter language really, but from what I can see about 
it, I would still need to perform sanity checking. If not, people could 
use it to delete other peoples mailboxes, or read system config files, 
or overwrite other peoples mail boxes etc.

Mike



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