• Bug#263479: But what about all the user_prefs regrets I later noted?

    From Dan Jacobson@1:229/2 to All on Fri Aug 20 02:00:23 2004
    From: [email protected]

    So do
    # grep --files-without-match \> /home/*/.procmailrc
    etc. to root them out instead for now.

    "M" == Mark Symonds <[email protected]> writes:

    hrmm yes. Perhaps a script run from exim.conf at delivery time?

    I was thinking of a less automated more personal approach, but...

    Otherwise running such on every homedir at frequent enough intervals
    could be very expensive, lots of users on that box and all it takes is
    for one to implement a bad procmailrc moments after the last check was
    made and the box still gets crashed.

    Also have to check for those who put in an extra 0 or three after their
    .

    Which brings us back to the current check - simply ignore .procmailrc's
    on mails over 200k.
    We don't care about the limits they put in there;
    we have already enforced the maximum.

    Hey, wait! Can you still execute the old way using your |.forward file
    pipe command? Oh my!

    Anyway, even if above thought doesn't work, I think we might be able to lsearch a flatfile of users for whom this test is excluded. This way everyone has the 200k ignore thing except for those in the special
    privilege list. What do you think?

    One wants a wrapper /usr/bin/spamassassin that will say,
    Dear $USER,
    You have attempted to send an incoming mail that was bigger than
    200000 bytes thru spamassassin. This will create too much of a burden
    on the system, therefore you will see we let it bypass spamassassin.
    Please see /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/procmailrc.example or use spamc
    (after it gets debugged, and it passes big messages too)

    And then calls cat, else /usr/bin/spamassassin_real, apparently.

    All these antics wouldn't be needed if spamassassin implemented
    limits, like spamc, which is the bug I'm CCing to.


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