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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/current.xml
This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of January 27th, 2003.
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1. Gentoo News
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Summary
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* Gentoo Linux at LinuxWorld Expo
* GLSAs being integrated into Portage
Gentoo Linux at LinuxWorld Expo
-------------------------------
Gentoo Linux had a strong showing at last week's LinuxWorld Expo. Showing
off the recently-released Linux port of Unreal Tournament 2003, the Gentoo
booth drew large crowds throughout the show. Many of the attendees were
unfamiliar with Gentoo Linux, so this was a great opportunity to educate a
highly-targeted audience about the many benefits of Gentoo. While we
received inquiries from a wide range of people, there seemed to be a
specific interest from the scientific community, with several attendees
expressing an interest in using Gentoo Linux for their research projects.
It was also a great opportunity for many of the developers and avid Gentoo
users to finally meet face to face. All told, nearly a dozen developers
showed up for part or all of the show. Amazingly, few people looked like
they do on IRC. For those who were unable to attend LWE, we've included a
few pictures with this week's issue.
Figure 1.1: The Gentoo Linux booth at LinuxWorld Expo
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/images/gwn/20030127_l
we_booth.jpg
Figure 1.2: Gerk spent much of his time burning CDs for attendees
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/images/gwn/20030127_l
we_gerk_burning.jpg
Figure 1.3: Seemant Kulleen (left) and Daniel Robbins
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/images/gwn/20030127_l
we_seemant_drobbins.jpg
GLSAs being integrated into Portage
-----------------------------------
Nick Jones announced his intention to integrate Gentoo Linux Security
Announcements into Portage The proposed method is converting GLSAs to XML
format to allow for easy integration into Portage, allowing users to only
update packages that are affected by GLSAs. While the details still need
to be worked out, this will certainly be a welcome feature by many Gentoo
users and will make running Gentoo on servers where stability is paramount
an easier task.
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2. Gentoo Security
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Summary
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* GLSA: vim vim-core gvim
* GLSA: cvs
* GLSA: kde-2.2.x
* New Security Bug Reports
GLSA: vim vim-core gvim
-----------------------
The vim editor and associated packages contain a bug which permits
execution of un-sandboxed modeline commands. This permits a maliciously
crafted textfile to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. The
advisory also notes an unconfirmed report of a similar problem with local
variables in emacs. An exploit has been demonstrated..
* Severity: Moderate to High - arbitrary code execution.
* Packages Affected: app-editors/vim-core (prior to 6-1-r4), vim (prior
to 6.1-r19), gvim (prior to 6.1-r6).
* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u vim-core vim gvim
* GLSA Announcement[1]
* Advisory[2]
1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=31627
2. http://www.guninski.com/vim1.html
GLSA: cvs
---------
Maliciously malformed directory names can be used to trigger an error in
CVS that can result in a global pointer being freed twice. This condition
could be used to determine heap memory locations as a prelude to other
attacks using the CVS servers' privilege level (potentially root). No
exploits in the wild are reported.
* Severity: Critical - remote information leak, security exposure of
systems vulnerable to double-free pointer bugs.
* Packages Affected: dev-util/cvs versions prior to 1.11.5
* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u cvs
* GLSA Announcement[3]
* Advisory[4]
3. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=31285
4. http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012003.html
GLSA: kde-2.2.x
---------------
In some cases, KDE may fail to properly quote execution parameters. This
could permit arbitrary command execution (with the target user's
privileges) through the use of carefully crafted URLs, email addresses and
filenames. Exploits have been demonstrated. This report is related to an
earlier report[5] of a vulnerability in kde-3.0.x.
* Severity: High - remote execution of code, exploits in the wild.
* Packages Affected: kde-base/kde2.2.x
* Rectification: Synchronize and emerge -u kde
* GLSA Announcement[6]
* Advisory[7]
The updated ebuilds for kde-2.2.2 are currently only marked stable for
x86.
5. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27299
6. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=30777
7. http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20021220-1.txt
New Security Bug Reports
------------------------
There are no new security bugs this week. The mpg123 bug mentioned last
week:
* media-sound/mpg123[8]
remains open, but the message traffic implies that the issue may not be a
concern for the version currently in the portage tree. The bug is still
open because of a potential issue with frame size calculation in the
current version.
8. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14076
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3. Featured Developer of the Week
=================================
Nicholas Jones
Figure 3.1: Nicholas Jones
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/images/gwn/20030127_c
arpaski.jpg
Nicholas Jones[9], this week's (and the inaugural) Featured Developer, is
the current maintainer of Portage. Subscribers to the mailing lists will
have his response[10] to the recent /etc/make.conf fiasco fresh in their
minds, whereas those who frequent the IRC channel (#gentoo on
irc.freenode.net) or the forums will have seen him as carpaski, responding
to Portage feature requests and resolving various problems. IRC, actually,
is where Nick got started with the Gentoo team: a regular who helped out
with things and submitted ebuilds and patches, the developers snapped him
up and got him onboard. Now, as Portage maintainer, he plans and codes new
features for Portage, making sure that changes are as modular as possible
to facilitate testing and debugging, as well as reviewing bug reports,
looking for problems to solve and features that can be merged into
portage.
9. carpaski@g.o
10. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104272726519197&w=2
A self-proclaimed console junky, Nick's favorite applications include
Midnight Commander, vi, lsof, and bash. He uses Enlightenment 16.5 - and
only Enlightenment 16.5 - for window management, and mutt for mail. Using
his scripting skills, Nick has done some work remotely administering UNIX
machines, and has also worked as a network engineer on a US goverment
backbone. Amazingly enough, when he's not busy hacking and testing Portage
or doing administration work, you'll find him studying at the Illinois
Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL. After all that it's hard to
imagine that he'd have time left for other pursuits, but Nick says he
likes wine and music - both listening to it and playing it on guitar, as
well as frisbee and racquetball.
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4. Heard In The Community
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Web Forums
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emerge-webrsync Tool Problems
A recent thread[11] in the forums was promoted to an alert when it was
discovered that an upgrade to the emerge-webrsync tool from the gentoolkit
had resulted in the potential for it to delete the /usr directory on
machines where it was run. emerge-webrsync is a tool for automatically
updating the local portage directory from the daily snapshots on machines
that are prevented from using emerge sync (for example, on machines behind
firewalls that block rsync). A number of users reported substantial (and
possibly unrecoverable) damage to their installations. The problem was
reported in this bug report[12]. The issue was apparently resolved in
gentoolkit-r11.
11. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=31494
12. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14388
Much Moaning About ibiblio
People all over the planet are struggling to get decent download speeds
from the ibiblio server that provides the packages for Gentoo
installations. Not a major problem as long as everybody was content to
grab a stage1 tarball and take it from there, but since the introduction
of the Gentoo Reference Platform and its collection of precompiled
binaries, the CD images have grown to "normal" size around 500 MB each,
and the complaints are getting louder, on the IRC channels and the forums.
If it wasn't for the fact that many of those complaining have simply
failed to embrace any of the dozens of mirrors listed[13] at the official
Gentoo website and Ibiblio itself...
* ibiblio esta lenta...[14]
* Problems accessing ibiblio...[15]
* ibiblio suddenly slow![16]
* ibiblslow.org[17]
13. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml
14. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=31478
15. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=25724
16. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28560
17. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=22830
Automatic Writing Resurrected
One of the Forum's all-time classics is back: After a break over Christmas
and New Year's, the "Story By Post" thread has been reanimated. Knitted
with one-liners that fit exceptionally well within the general direction
the story will take (except that nobody actually knows where it's going),
each contribution adds to a great recital involving (so far) the marmalade
cat, Ellen Feiss, the wonder boy, Peter Falk and many others still rubbing
their eyes in disbelief, wondering how they ended up starring in a prose
artifact hovering on a technical support forum. Another thread in a
similar genre has been left alone for a while - well, until now. This one
actually comes with its own meta-thread:
* Story By Post[18]
* Chain Thread[19]
* Chain Thread Offramp[20]
18. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21618
19. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=20571
20. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=20599
Forum Statistics
fghellar[21], one of the Forum's bodhisattvas and an honorary headcounter,
has posted an update on the number of users currently registered at the
site. Hard to estimate how many of these are active or at least passively
reading stuff, but the sheer numbers are impressive. Constantly updated
statistics can be watched by clicking on the official statistics link in
the top menu, but for a historical perspective on growth in the Gentoo
forums check the first link:
* 1k users[22]
* Official forum statistics[23]
21. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=20
22. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1593
23. http://forums.gentoo.org/statistics.php
gentoo-user
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More praise for Phoenix
A lengthy discussion took place on gentoo-user about the buggy misbehavior
of Mozilla. It seems that almost everyone and their mother has complained
about bad plugin support, sluggishness and crashes -- especially when
dealing with Gentoo's Mozilla sources. Even with Rafa's tip[24] on
compiling Mozilla without mail and news support and Steve's point[25] on
using the mozilla.org tarballs, the complaints remained widespread.
Phoenix was mentioned as an alternative and the audience gave nothing but
praise. Phoenix is a non-bloated redesign of the Mozilla browser component
which admittedly runs much faster and embraces the java and flash plugins
on Gentoo systems without hesitation. The thread[26] even encouraged happy
Mozilla users to switch to Phoenix. If you've been fighting with Mozilla,
you may want to experiment with Phoenix if you don't need Moz's mail &
news.
24. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104300159002182&w=2
25. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104297434515022&w=2
26. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104296768011912&w=2
Kernel Performance
Most of us gentoo users are not satisfied with an OK system. We'd much
rather have our software tweaked just enough to squeeze an extra 5hp out
of that already souped up 750hp big block. The number one place to muster
this extra horsepower is the Linux kernel. We can worry about the CFLAGS
later. Gentoo is stocked with many different kernel sources other than the
-gentoo ones, and all come with their unique advantages and disavantages
as determined by the patches involved with them. These patches are applied
against the 'vanilla' source resulting in a modified kernel. An example of
these patches, rmap[27] , was described within the thread. Aniruddha
Shankar started the discussion[28] by boasting his happines with using Con
Kolivas's kernel (-ck sources) for his desktop system. As always, Gentoo
users are encouraged to tailor their system to their needs, and a good
place to start is the kernel.
27. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104341729031736&w=2
28. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-user&m=104341350726805&w=2
gentoo-dev
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Methods for managing etc files.
Jeff Kowing asked[29] about the techniques to use to manage updateing etc
files after an upgrade. Matthew Walker answer very succinctly[30] that
etc-update may be what he was looking for.
29. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/6702
30. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/6704
Gentoo-sources vs "stock" kernels.
Dewet Diener wrote[31] to ask: "I'm wondering what the general status of
gentoo-sources is compared to the more "stock" kernels, like vanilla and
-ac? Is it being used in production-class setups without hitches?". Kim
Nielsen replied[32] with "The gentoo kernel is quite stable but Gentoo was
never ment as a server distribution even though it serves just as well as
others like Redhat or Debian. It was intedned for network/developer use."
Thomas T. Veldhouse chipped in[33] with: "I don't think there is any such
intent. By what I can see and know about Gentoo, it is for any use that
one sees fit. It was never designed for any particular application. [...]
it is up to the administrator to make sure that gentoo changes don't hose
a production machine".
31. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/6705
32. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/6710
33. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/6711
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5. Gentoo International
=======================
Unofficial European Gentoo Websites
While the official Gentoo website struggles to keep up with the
multilingual cacophony created by the enormous wave of popularity crashing
over its head, many non-English websites have taken over the part of
support for local communities. Today we take a closer look at some
European sites: French-speaking users, for example, have been blessed with
a dynamic news and discussion site of their own for many months now. The
forum section is not as active as the French board at forums.gentoo.org,
but manages to coexist peacefully. But the real strength of "Da Gentoo"
lies in its news coverage, delivered not only to common browsers:
Gentoofr.org news are being served for PDAs and for WAP-enabled mobile
phones. The German Gentoo project is probably the oldest outside of the US
(it started sometime back in April 2002), but hasn't lost its appetite
yet. Gentoo.de (like many other international sites, e.g. Korea and Japan)
is focussed on documentation, but more importantly provides a large number
of supplementary "regional" ebuilds with spellcheckers and localized
Openoffice-bin versions, and the occasional tool for users with specific
homegrown problems (a PPPoE tarball for DSL users in Germany can be
downloaded from the project's FTP-server). The Danish site has its
emphasis equally on projects and development, and is currently looking for
contributors and people who can help with PHP coding. The news section
definitely needs a blood transfusion, there haven't been any updates since
May 2002. The Norwegian website has a comparatively low profile,
apparently content to just provide a few links to mirror servers and
information resources. But it's highly unfair to just point out the
websites: The most buzz for the buck comes from the many non-English IRC
channels on Freenode! Anybody who wants to get a feel for the huge user
base Gentoo has in many European countries, just check out the Dutch or
the Portuguese #gentoo-nl or #gentoo-pt channels via irc.freenet.org...
With a channel like #gentoo-fi, who needs a Finnish website, and the
Swedes even have their own IRC statistics:
* France: Da Gentoo French Page[34]
* Germany: Gentoo Linux - Das deutschsprachige Portal[35]
* Denmark: Gentoo Linux Danmark[36]
* Norway: Gentoo Linux Norge[37]
* Sweden: IRC channel statistics[38]
34. http://www.gentoofr.org/
35. http://www.gentoo.de
36. http://www.gentoo.dk
37. http://www.gentoo.no
38. http://gentoo-se.ath.cx
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6. Portage Watch
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The following stable packages were added to portage this week
-------------------------------------------------------------
Because of the pending release of 1.4_final, the Portage tree is currently
frozen. As such, no new stable packages were introduced to Portage this
week
Updates to notable packages
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* sys-devel/gcc - gcc-3.2.1-r7.ebuild;
* sys-kernel/* - aa-sources-2.4.21_pre3-r1.ebuild;
development-sources-2.5.59-r1.ebuild;
development-sources-2.5.59-r2.ebuild; development-sources-2.5.59.ebuild;
gs-sources-2.4.21_pre3-r1.ebuild; gs-sources-2.4.21_pre3-r2.ebuild;
mips-sources-2.4.19.ebuild; openmosix-sources-2.4.20-r2.ebuild;
* net-www/apache - apache-2.0.44.ebuild;
* app-admin/gentoolkit - gentoolkit-0.1.17-r10.ebuild;
gentoolkit-0.1.17-r11.ebuild;
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7. Bugzilla
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Summary
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* Statistics
* Closed Bug Ranking
* New Bug Rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[39]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. In the last 7 days, activity on the site has resulted
in:
* 258 new bugs this week
* 1491 total bugs currently marked 'new'
* 559 total bugs curently assigned to developers
* 54 bugs that were previously closed have been reopened.
There are currently 2104 bugs open in bugzilla. Of these: 40 are labelled
'blocker', 76 are labelled 'critical', and 144 are labelled 'major'.
39. http://bugs.gentoo.org
The current list of developers' open bugs may be found at the Gentoo Bug
Count Report[40].
40.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/reports.cgi?product=-All-&output=most_doomed&links=1
&banner=1&quip=0
Closed Bug Rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs this week are:
* Martin Schlemmer[41], with 38 closed bugs[42]
* Nick Hadaway[43], with 17 closed bugs[44]
* M. Holzer[45], with 14 closed bugs[46]
* Donny Davies[47], with 10 closed bugs[48]
* Seemant Kulleen[49], with 8 closed bugs[50]
41. azarah@g.o
42.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_s
tatus=CLOSED&resolution=FIXED&resolution=TEST-REQUEST&emailassigned_to1=1&e
mailtype1=exact&email1=azarah%40gentoo.org&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2
003-01-18
43. raker@g.o
44.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_s
tatus=CLOSED&resolution=FIXED&resolution=TEST-REQUEST&emailassigned_to1=1&e
mailtype1=exact&email1=raker%40gentoo.org&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=20
03-01-18
45. mholzer@g.o
46.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_s
tatus=CLOSED&resolution=FIXED&resolution=TEST-REQUEST&emailassigned_to1=1&e
mailtype1=exact&email1=mholzer%40gentoo.org&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=
2003-01-18
47. woodchip@g.o
48.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_s
tatus=CLOSED&resolution=FIXED&resolution=TEST-REQUEST&emailassigned_to1=1&e
mailtype1=exact&email1=woodchip%40gentoo.org&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom
=2003-01-18
49. seemant@g.o
50.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_s
tatus=CLOSED&resolution=FIXED&resolution=TEST-REQUEST&emailassigned_to1=1&e
mailtype1=exact&email1=seemant%40gentoo.org&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=
2003-01-18
New Bug Rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs this
week are:
* Martin Schlemmer[51], with 10 new bugs[52]
* Nick Hadaway[53], with 6 new bugs[54]
* Seth Chandler[55], with 6 new bugs[56]
* The Gnome Team[57], with 5 new bugs[58]
51. azarah@g.o
52.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=azarah%40gentoo.
org&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-01-18
53. raker@g.o
54.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=raker%40gentoo.o
rg&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-01-18
55. sethbc@g.o
56.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=sethbc%40gentoo.
org&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-01-18
57. gnome@g.o
58.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s
tatus=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=gnome%40gentoo.o
rg&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-01-18
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8. Tips and Tricks
==================
Using Procmail and SpamAssassin to Block Spam and Filter Mailing Lists
The proliferation of unsolicited email, or spam, is becoming more and more
widespread. However, there are many tools to help prevent spam. This week,
we look at using Procmail and SpamAssassin to filter incoming mail and to
block incoming spam. Procmail[59] is a mail filter than can be used to
sort incoming mail into separate folders as well as many other types of
mail preprocessing. SpamAssassin[60] is a mail filter that uses heuristic
scanning to identify spam.
59. http://www.procmail.org
60. http://www.spamassassin.org
Since both Procmail and SpamAssassin are in Portage, installation is a
simple emerge.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 8.1: |
| Installing Procmail and SpamAssassin |
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| |
|# emerge net-mail/procmail |
|# emerge dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin |
| |
|Add the SpamAssassin daemon to the default runlevel |
|# rc-update add spamd default |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
When upgrading Perl to a higher version, you need to re-emerge
dev-perl/Net-DNS, dev-perl/HTML-Parser, and dev-perl/Time-HiRes or
SpamAssassin will exit and possibly discard valid emails.
Each procmail filter is known as a recipie. To keep things organized,
we're going to create the directory $HOME/.procmail for separate recipies.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 8.1: |
| Creating ~/.procmail |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |
|% mkdir $HOME/.procmail |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Upon invocation, procmail first reads the $HOME/.procmailrc file. This
file should contain the location of your mailbox and where to look for
other recipies.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 8.1: |
| Example $HOME/.procmailrc |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |
|VERBOSE=no |
| |
|DEFAULT="$HOME/.maildir/" |
|MAILDIR="$HOME/.maildir/" |
| |
|PMDIR="$HOME/.procmail" |
|LOGFILE="$PMDIR/log" |
| |
|INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/lists.rc |
|INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/spam.rc |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
This assumes that you are using the Maildir method of storing email. If
you are using the mbox method, simply change .maildir to your mbox folder
and remove the trailing slash $HOME/.procmailrc is read from top to
bottom. This means that your recipies will be read in the order in which
they appear. Procmail stops checking on the first recipie that matches.
Keeping lists.rc above spam.rc ensures that mailing lists filters are
checked first, avoiding expensive spam checking operations where possible.
The next step is to set up mailing list filters. Since most lists use the
List-Id header, we can easily filter out mailing lists from normal email.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 8.1: |
| Example $HOME/.procmail/lists.rc |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |
|:0 |
|* ^List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-security\.gentoo\.org> |
|.gentoo-security/ |
| |
|:0 |
|* ^List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user\.gentoo\.org> |
|.gentoo-user/ |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
To see the actual List-Id header, you may need view all email headers.
See your mail client's documentation to enable that feature.
Next, we can set up the spam filter. This recipie first invokes
SpamAssassin using spamc and then checks the X-Spam-Status header. If the
message is identified as spam, it is moved to the spam folder.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 8.1: |
| Example $HOME/.procmail/spam.rc |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |
|:0 fw |
|| /usr/bin/spamc -f |
| |
|:0 |
|* X-Spam-Status: Yes |
|.spam/ |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
While SpamAssassin is very good, it is not 100% accurate so using
/dev/null as your spam folder may result in some lost email. It is better
to move spam to a separate folder and manually delete messages. spamc
connects to the SpamAssassin daemon (spamd). If for some reason you cannot
use the daemon, SpamAssassin can be called directly using
/usr/bin/spamassassin -a
You should now be set up to filter your email and block most spam. For
more information on Procmail or SpamAssassin, see their system
documentation with man procmail and perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin or the
associated websites at http://www.procmail.org and
http://www.spamassassin.org.
==========================
9. Moves, Adds and Changes
==========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* none this week
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo team:
* none this week
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project.
* none this week
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10. Contribute to GWN
=====================
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email[61].
61. gwn-feedback@g.o
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62. gwn-feedback@g.o
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12. Other Languages
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The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter is also available in the following languages:
* Dutch
* English
* German
* French
* Japanese
* Italian
* Portuguese (Brazil)
* Portuguese (Portugal)
* Spanish
Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o> - Editor
AJ Armstrong <aja@...> - Contributor
Brice Burgess <nesta@...> - Contributor
Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@g.o> - Contributor
Rafael Cordones Marcos <rcm@...> - Contributor
David Narayan <david@...> - Contributor
Ulrich Plate <plate@...> - Contributor
Peter Sharp <mail@...> - Contributor
Mathy Vanvoorden <matje@...> - Dutch Translation
Tom Van Laerhoven <tom.vanlaerhoven@...> - Dutch Translation
Roel Adriaans <roel@...> - Dutch Translation
Nicolas Ledez <nicolas.ledez@...> - French Translation
Guillaume Plessis <gui@...> - French Translation
Eric St-Georges <thevedge@...> - French Translation
John Berry <anfini@...> - French Translation
Martin Prieto <riverdale@...> - French Translation
Michael Kohl <citizen428@g.o> - German Translation
Steffen Lassahn <madeagle@g.o> - German Translation
Matthias F. Brandstetter <haim@g.o> - German Translation
Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@g.o> - German Translation
Marco Mascherpa <mush@...> - Italian Translation
Claudio Merloni <paper@...> - Italian Translation
Daniel Ketel <kage-chan@g.o> - Japanese Translation
Yoshiaki Hagihara <hagi@...> - Japanese Translation
Andy Hunne <andy@...> - Japanese Translation
Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@g.o> - Japanese Translation
Ventura Barbeiro <venturasbarbeiro@...> - Portuguese (Brazil)
Translation
Bruno Ferreira <blueroom@...> - Portuguese (Portugal)
Translation
Lanark <lanark@...> - Spanish Translation
Rafael Cordones Marcos <rcm@...> - Spanish Translation
Julio Castillo <julio@...> - Spanish Translation
Jaime Freire <jfreire@...> - Spanish Translation
Sergio G??mez <s3r@...> - Spanish Translation
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