sircam procmail recipe (was: Re: asshole virus emailers)

[Adam Robert Pitcher]

I'm not an expert with procmail either.  But I did find a rule on 
LinuxToday that I have applied at a
global level and it seems to work great.

--
# SirCam spam recipie, from LinuxToday, Tue Jul 24 22:28:09 PDT 2001
:0 Bh
  *I send you this file in order to have your advice
  *daeLRCQEM9KJEIN8JAwAdBmLRCQEi1QkCIkQi0\QkDCtEJAiLVCQEiUIEg8QUXV9eW8NTVldV
     |(formail -rtb -I "Precedence: junk" \
     -I "Subject: SirCam Virus Spam Worm"; \
     echo "Your computer is infected with the SirCam worm. Please see"; \
     echo "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,45427,00.html for 
more information.")\
     |$SENDMAIL -oi -t
--



Edward Glowacki wrote:

>Quoted from Ben Pfaff on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 11:56:49PM -0400:
>
>>Okay, the following seems to work okay.  Anyone who's more
>>experienced with procmail want to comment on the recipe below?
>>
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>MAILDIR=/home/blp/procmail
>>LOGFILE=/home/blp/procmail/log
>>LOGABSTRACT=all
>>
>>:0:
>>* B ?? I send you this XXXXXXXXXX to have your advice
>>sircam
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>
>Mmmm... sounds tasty.  You'll have to let us know how it turns out,
>and also if it's good topped with ketchup. ;)
>
>I suppose the recipe should work, but I'm not exactly a procmail
>guru.  I usually just filter on To: and From: lines like this:
>
>:0
>* (^To|^Cc).*linux-user@egr.msu.edu
>lists/lug
>
>
>>I've XXXXXXX'd out the line above so that I can actually see the
>>replies to this message!
>>
>
>I send you this file to have your (uh oh, better not taunt Ben by
>finishing the sentence, cause then his filter will just trash it.
>DOH! ;) )
>
>>-- 
>>"doe not call up Any that you can not put downe."
>>--H. P. Lovecraft
>>
>
>Two responses, couldn't decide which I liked better, so here they
>both are:
>
>1. That's good advice.  Why didn't we think of this *before* we
>elected GW?
>
>2. That's useless advice, you can put down anybody.  "Your mother
>was a hamster and your father smelt of eldeberries," "Looks like
>someone's been down here with the ugly stick," or if you prefer
>short and to the point (Jerry Springer style), "You skanky b%tch!"
>