From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 10:40:05 +0800
To: janzen@idacom.hp.com
Subject: Re: How to use procmail
In-Reply-To: <9609042045.AA27973@sabel.idacom.hp.com>
Message-ID: <199609050006.TAA07462@homeport.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text


Martin Janzen wrote:

| New procmail users, listen to Adam!  (And read the man page, even
| though it's a bit intimidating at first.)

Yeah, Listen to me! Listen to me! (Its the new cypherpunks theme
song!)

More seriously, here's my .procmailrc.  I'm fond of it, but the cpunks
section could use some more work.  Other parts may be useful basis
for other people's hacking.

Adam

# $Id: .procmailrc,v 1.10 1996/08/05 04:54:46 adam Exp $
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib/mh
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/=      	#you'd better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/adam
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/.procmail.log
REALLF=$LOGFILE			# So I only have one path to LF
COMSAT=no			# don't tell comsat; its obstelete.
# VERBOSE=on		# bad bad bad!


#This first ruleset protets me from mailbombs from an automated service
#that I often send incorrect commands to, generating 5mb of reply.
# It also sorts based on sucsess of the command.

:0c :
.safe

:0
* From bal@swissnet.ai.mit.edu
{
   :0 h
   * >10000
   /dev/null

   :0 h
   *^Subject:.*no keys match
   /dev/null

   :0:
   *Subject: Your command, ADD
   $DEFAULT


   :0E
   | pgp +batchmode -fka
}


# This is a backup. Don't forget to cycle safe boxes.


# this is here because I don't want to hear about everything going in .safe.
# prevent duplicate messages from showing up in several folders.

LOGABSTRACT=all
# doesn't work
:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| formail -D 65536 .msgid.cache

# auto key retreival
#
# I have an elm alias, pgp, points to a keyserver
# The logfile gets unset briefly to keep the elm lines out of my
# logfile.

:0BW
* -----BEGIN PGP
*!^FROM_DAEMON
KEYID=|/home/adam/bin/sender_unknown

LOGFILE=

:0 ahc	# added h 8 jan 95
* ! ^X-Loop: Adams autokey retreival.
| formail -a"X-Loop: Adams akr" |elm -s"mget $KEYID" pgp



LOGFILE=$REALLF

:0
* (^TOCypherpunks|Sender:.*cypherpunks|^From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com)
{
   :0:
   * From.*owner-cp-lite@comsec.com
   cp-lite

   :0 h
   * Subject:.*(Delete|u*n*Sub*| add |leave|help|Undeliverable Message)
   * < 1000
   /dev/null
   
   :0 :rml.lock
   * ^From: Raph Levien
   * ^Subject: List of reliable remailers
   | cat /dev/null - > ~/sec/remailer-list

   :0:
   * 1^1 ^(From|To|Cc):.*david@sternlight.com
   * 1^1 ^Subject:.*CDA
   * 1^1 ^Subject:.*Assasination
   * 1^1 ^Subject:.*Reasons in support of crypto-anarchy
   * 1^1 ^Subject:.*Noise
   * 1^1 ^Subject:.*FV
   * 1^1 ^Subject:.*(PLEASE REPLY|test)
   cjunk


   :0B:
   * ^Alice de 'nonymous
   * an455120@anon.penet.fi
   * ^P.S.  This post is in the public domain.
   | formail -a "Status: O" >> cjunk



# I really ought to make this a wieghted rule.
   :0:
   * ^From:.*(aba@atlas|adam@lighthouse|blancw|cdodhner|cfrye|chen|cman|cme|colin@|daw@cs|ddt|ebrandt|eric@remail|futplex|frissell|gnu|gtoal|habs|hallam|hfinney|hugh|jis|karn|loewenste|loki|mab|froomki|mpj|nate|nsb|perry|pfarrel|rah|rjc|rsalz|sameer|sandfort|schneier|ses|smb|stewarts|szabo|tcmay|trei|unicorn|usura@berserk|warlord|weidai|whitaker|Zimmerman)
   * !^From.*(anonymous|perry@jpunix.com|jonathan@Memexis|perry@psii.persci.com|gertstein|Schartman|don@cs.byu.edu|senate.gov|doug@eng)
   cpunks

   :0:
   cpunks-noise
}
:0:
* ^TOfirewalls
firewalls


:0:
*^From owner-fwtk-users@tis.com
fwtk

:0
*^TOcyberia-l
{
#   VERBOSE=on

   :0 HW
   FROM=|formail -x "From: "

   :0 f
   | formail -I"Reply-To: $FROM"

   :0 fw:cyberia.sed.lock
   * ^From: Timothy Arnold-Moore <tja@kbs.citri.edu.au>
   |sed 's/^ //g'

   :0:
   cyberia
}

:0:
* ^From procmail-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
procmail


# Thats it for the high volume lists.  Low volume lists I don't push
# through formail.

:0:
* ^TOyucks@cs.purdue.edu
* ^Subject: Yucks Digest
| formail +1 -ds cat >> yucks

:0:
* ^TObugtraq
bugtraq

:0
* ^TO .*(ietf|rfc-dist)
{
   :0h
   *^Subject:.*ON-SITE
   /dev/null
 
   :0:
   ietf
}


:0
* ^TOwww-buyinfo
{
   :0
   * ^From: rah@shipwright
   * ^Subject: .*(cpx)
   /dev/null

   :0:
   | formail -a "Status: O" >> wwwb
}

:0:
*^TOspki
spki

:0
*^TOssl-talk
{
   :0
   *^Subject:.*remove
   * < 2000
   /dev/null

   :0:
   ssl
}

:0:
*^TOwww-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
wwws

:0:
*^From owner-ssh
ssh


:0:
*^TOremailer-operators@c2.org
remailers

:0:
*From best-of-security
bos


:0:
* ^TObblisa
bblisa

:0:
*^TOcoderpunks
coderpunks


:0:
*^TOmix-l
mix-l

:0:
* ^TOphrack
v/phrack

:0:
*^TOsdadmin
sdadmin

:0:
* Precedence: (junk|bulk)
junk

:0:
* To: postmaster
postmaster

# basic file server.  Only sends whats in .outbound
:0 
* ^Subject: (SEND|get) [0-9a-z][-_/0-9a-z.]+$
* !^Subject:.*[ /.]\.
* !^FROM_DAEMON
{
   # FILE=`formail -x Subject: | sed 's/.* //'`
   FILE=`sed -n -e '/Subject:/s/.* //p' -e '/^$/q'`

  :0c 
  | (formail -rt -A"Precedence: junk";\
     cat $HOME/.outbound/$FILE) | $SENDMAIL -t

  :0: 
  $MAILDIR/.log
}


# This handles vacation messages.  Make sure .vacation.msg and
# .vacationlist exist

:0 hc:vaction.lock 	#  untested
* ?  [ -r $MAILDIR/.vacationlist ]
* !? [ -r $MAILDIR/.vacation.msg ]
| rm -f $MAILDIR/.vacationlist


:0
* ? [ -s $MAILDIR/.vacation.msg ] 
* !^Precedence:(junk|bulk)
* !^FROM_DAEMON
{
 FROM=`formail -rx To:`
 ALREADYSENT=$MAILDIR/.vacationlist
   :0 hc:
   * !? fgrep -e "$FROM" $ALREADYSENT
   | echo "$FROM" >> $ALREADYSENT;\
 	(formail -rA"Precedence: junk";\
	cat $MAILDIR/.vacation.msg ;\
   ) | $SENDMAIL -t
}





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					               -Hume