Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 17:37:35 -0600 (CST) From: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: ctkwan@cs.hku.hk, pete@sms.fi, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail bomb! Message-ID: <199612162337.RAA22656@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <E0vZlBl-0005RR-00@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Dec 16, 96 03:07:09 pm
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> In message <Pine.SUN.3.91.961216164217.1685A-100000@champion> Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~} writes:
> : Most ISP's have customers who are not computer gurus. Asking them
> : to use PGP to verify all our messages would not be a good idea. Anyway
> : we would take your advice to digitally sign all our messages.
>
> However, if you do sign all the messages, then you could filter all
> those not signed by the right key. The users needn't know which ones
> are good or bad, or how to use pgp even. It would be a big clue to
> sendmail to filter out messages based on content (if it can do that).
>
> Warner
>
I did not check that but probably, procmail can do "sorting" job,
passing through messages from the administration, signed with the
right pgp and sending to /dev/null the rest.
IgoR
aka StR
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