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1997-04-13 - Re: How to IGNORE massive To: and Cc: spams

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
To: freedom-knights@jetcafe.org
Message Hash: f2187dde26b2f53d112435a6455f3a62443f787317f9b048149b4bceab8ea96d
Message ID: <199704131915.OAA04079@manifold.algebra.com>
Reply To: <XP545D3w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-04-13 19:16:24 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 12:16:24 -0700 (PDT)

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 12:16:24 -0700 (PDT)
To: freedom-knights@jetcafe.org
Subject: Re: How to IGNORE massive To: and Cc: spams
In-Reply-To: <XP545D3w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
Message-ID: <199704131915.OAA04079@manifold.algebra.com>
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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
> 
> ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) writes:
> >
> > [this is only of interest to UNIX(tm) users. Windows users, please ignore]
> 
> I suspect that a typical Windows user with a POP account usually has a unix
> account and a home directory (although its shell may be /etc/false or some
> such); he may be able to ftp to it and create a .forward file pointing
> to procmail, who will look at the incoming mail before passing on to his
> PPP. I don't really know shit about this, so don't flame me if this
> doesn't work. :-)

If the user shell is /bin/false, most likely the .forward file will not
be able to invoke any programs.

	- Igor.

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