[Esd-l] Case for repetitive rule.

[John D. Hardin]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Philip Choy wrote:

> "Apply this rule after the message arrives
> Where the From line contains validuser at income.com.sg' 
> Forward it to validuser at income.com.sg "
> 
> The valid user can send an email with 1Mb size to himself and It
> will create a loop by forwarding to himself and it will not stop.
> ------------
> 
> How will the procmail rule be used to prevent this situation?

One possibility, off the top of my head (and thus untested):

	:0
	* > 1000000
	* $ ^From:.*[ <]${USER}@income\.com\.sg
	* $ ^(To|Cc):.*[ <]${USER}@income\.com\.sg
	{
		LOG="WARN: $USER attacking mail server"

		:0
		/dev/null
	}


Many refinements can be made.

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