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RE: Getting sendmail to drop email with a specific subject line.



Neat, thanks.

Could this be used to copy? If so how?

Regards

Steven
Aka Thing

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard A Nelson [mailto:cowboy@debian.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, 8 March 2005 7:33 a.m.
To: Steven Jones
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Getting sendmail to drop email with a specific subject
line.

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Steven Jones wrote:

> SCheckSubject
> R$={FullSubjects}$*[TAB]$: REJECTSUBJECT
> R$* $={PartSubjects} $*[TAB]$: REJECTSUBJECT
> R$* REJECTSUBJECT $*[TAB]$#error $: "553 Access Denied - MSG may
contain
> SPAM/WORM/VIRUS/HOAX."
>
> Which rejects based on key words in /etc/mail/subjects_part
>
> Ie *****spam*****
>
> Anyone out there who can edit this for me to simply drop or point at
> /dev/null please?  I do not want to bounce the email back, just
> blackhole it.

1) s/$#error/$#discard/
2) rebuild sendmail.cf
3) restart/reload sendmail

that will silently discard such messages - you'll probably have to scan
/var/log/mail.log to see it working
-- 
Rick Nelson
"Are [Linux users] lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of
reliable, well-engineered commercial software?"
(By Matt Welsh)



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