PCFA.ORG discontinued the scanning of incoming mail for viruses on December 26, 2001. The main purpose of procmail on PCFA.ORG is now the limitation of the size of incoming e-mail.

There is a non-technical overview of PCFA.ORG's incoming e-mail scanning.

Recent versions of sendmail provide the "hook" to procmail in the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file (see also, M4). At PCFA.ORG, those lines look like:

Mlocal,         P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
                T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
                A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u

Note: The VERBOSE=yes|no and LOGABSTRACT=all|no variables may change depending on the level of logging I am doing; change to suit your configuration.

Much of the information on this page is Linux-specific and is intended for use by system administrators at servers which wish to base their routines upon those used at PCFA.ORG. The Prescott Community Freenet Association makes this information available under the GNU Public License. It is furnished WITHOUT WARRANTIES of any kinds, including NO WARRANTY OF MERCHANTIBILITY and NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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