Re: reporting BTS spam easily from Mutt

[David Nusinow <dnusinow@speakeasy.net>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:44:08PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> In case it's useful to anyone, here's a quick hack I put together for
> easy BTS spam reporting from mutt.
> 
> Firstly a keybinding for .muttrc:
> 
> macro index B "<enter-command>unset wait_key\n<pipe-entry>bugspam\n<enter-command>set wait_key\n<delete-message>"
> macro pager B "<enter-command>unset wait_key\n<pipe-entry>bugspam\n<enter-command>set wait_key\n<delete-message>"
> 
> Secondly, a script called bugspam which goes somewhere in $PATH:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> # Read message on stdin, get Bug#nnn from subject line then call
> # "bts reportspam" to submit a spam report
> 
> $bug = 0;
> 
> while(<>) {
>     if (m/^Subject: (?:\[.*\])?\s*Bug#(\d+): /) {
>         $bug = $1;
>         last;
>     }
> }
> 
> if ($bug) {
>     print "Reporting spam in bug $bug\n";
>     system "bts reportspam $bug";
> } else {
>     print "Bug number not found from subject line\n";
> }
> 
> (And install devscripts to get the "bts" program.)
> 
> Now, hit B on bug spam and be merry.
> 
> Future enhancements might include reopening of occasional nnn-done@bugs
> spam incidents.
> 
> 
> I suppose the trend these days would be to blog this rather than post,
> but I don't have one.

I use mutt but I don't have the library of scripts that I'm sure many DD's
have to deal with debian-specific stuff, although I'd love one. Would
anyone besides me be interested in pooling mutt scripts useful for DD's on
the wiki or something?

 - David Nusinow