Re: Spam reporting tools (was: Re: UNRESOLVED: Re: Mutt: how to mark multiple spams?)

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (06/02/06 04:07), Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > On (06/02/06 01:05), Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'd tag the messages and move them to a folder.
> > > 
> > > That folder would automatically get a spam run against it periodically
> > > which would:
> > > 
> > >   1.  Move the messages to an "active current process" location.
> > >   2.  Score and report spam.
> > >   3.  Move the messages to an archive or /dev/null (e.g.:  delete) when
> > >       done
> > > 
> > > Have that happen periodically (every few minutes to every few hours) and
> > > you've got a pretty painless system.  It's also going to give you less
> > > latency in your mutt session as most of the processing is asyncronous to
> > > your mail reading.
> > 
> > I'm doing this manually currently but would love to automate it :)
> > 
> > Do you have a suitable script to share?
> 
>     http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Download/SpamTools.tar.gz
> 
> Note that you should be familiar with shell scripting and reading SMTP
> headers, *and* should be very aware that you *WILL* shoot yourself in
> the foot if you run this without reading the docs.  Exempt your mailing
> lists before you piss off a lot of folks.
> 
> Otherwise:  it generates spam reports at the rate of 8-20 seconds per,
> and is designed to run over Maildir folder formats.  Part of output can
> be found by searching my name in Google Groups
> news.admin.net-abuse.sightings.
> 
> If you do run this, I'd be very interested in seeing your spam-source
> stats.  See my homepage for details.

Thanks Karsten

I'll find some time to put a cold towel on my head, read and inwardly
digest. I have limited scripting experience and a vague understanding of
SMTP headers.... so up the learning curve we go :)

I'll get back to you.

Regards

Clive

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