Re: Debian and spam

From: s. keeling (keeling_at_spots.ab.ca)
Date: 11/14/04

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    Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 10:21:38 -0700
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    Incoming from Chris Lale:
    > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 23:04, Carl Fink wrote:
    > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:15:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
    > >
    > > > I tend to prefer real email management over fake email address hacks.
    > > > Keeps everything simpler, makes the spam easier to report, etc.
    > >
    > > Who are you reporting spam to, anyway? I'd like to contribute but I'm
    > > woefully out-of-touch.
    >
    > OK, this looks like a Good Idea. So I got hold of the adcomplain Perl
    > script from http://www.rdrop.com/users/billmc/adcomplain.html. I pipe a
    > spam message to it
    > cat spam-file | perl adcomplain.pl

    Useless use of cat. The adcomplain documentation says:

       adcomplain <file

    > maildir files with mb2md (from Testing). The files are in a subdirectory
    > called cur with names like these:
    > 1100447087.000000.mbox:2,S
    > 1100447087.000001.mbox:2,S
    > 1100447087.000002.mbox:2,S

      # untested!
      #
      for f in cur/1100447087.000000.mbox*; do
        adcomplain.pl < $f
      done

    I haven't used adcomplain, so ymmv. Consider going to Spamcop.net,
    getting a _free_ spam reporting address, and sending your Spam to
    them. They'll analyze it to death and mail you back a URL where you
    can go to see what they came up with, and finish (or cancel) the
    report depending on what they found. If you go that way, they have a
    perl script you can use to auto-report Spam. 

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