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Re: Procmail recipe for Nitwit unsubscribers who can't read DU sigs.



 This doesn't belong on deb-sec or deb-laptop.  I'm not subscribed to
deb-user, though, so CC please.

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:44:01PM -0800, Matthew Whitworth wrote:
> Don't pipe to /dev/null just yet -- I've had five false positives since 
> implementing it this morning!
> 
> I can provide procmail log entries (although not the actual emails -- I 
> /dev/null-ed prematurely) if you'd like.  I'm going to leave the filter 
> in place, but pipe them to a folder instead so that I can debug.

My conservative rule is this:

:0:
* ^Subject: (un)?subscribe$
unsub-idiots

 That way I get to see any snarky comments by people picking on those who
sent their command to the wrong address.

 It hasn't yet caught anything I didn't want it to.

> 
> Matthew Whitworth
> 
> s. keeling wrote:
> 
> >FYI, procmail users: This appears to work fairly well so far; fwiw:
> >
> ># ------------------------------------
> ># inept mailing list (un)su[b]?scribe attempts, and "vacation" dorks.
> >#
> >:0 HB
> >* 1^0 ()(I will be out of the office|I will respond to your message when I 
> >return\.)
> >* 1^0 ^Subject:.*(un)?su(b)?(s)?cribe
> >* 1^0 $ ^^${SPCNL}*(un)?su(b)?scribe
> >* -1^0 ^Subject:.*Re:
> >{
> > LOG="(Un)?subscriber - "
> > :0
> > /dev/null
> >}
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact 
> listmaster@lists.debian.org

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