Re: newbie install questions

[Frank T. <ft...@ne...>]

Mr Nick Stefanisko, on 2003-09-12, wrote:

> I recently installed Spamassassin and Pyzor on my
> Linux box and am now wanting to report spam that is
> getting through. What I did was to set up a mail alias
> to "|pyzor report" and then forwarded the message to
> that alias. 

> So my questions are:
> 
> 1) does that work, if not, how should I set this up?

No, it will likely not work, because your MUA probably altertered the
message when you forwarded it (e.g., it is not an exact resend).  If your
MUA has a command like Pine's 'Bounce', then this would resend with no
changes to teh body.

> 2) do I need an account on the server that was
> configured via "discover"?

Not for report or checking messages.

> 3) does pyzor realize that when I forward it a
> message, the origional message didn't come from me and
> doesn't really contain all those > marks or other such
> Fwd: side effects?

Nope.  See answer to 1).  Unfortunately, most forwards alter the message 
in unrecoverable ways.  Only a forward through an attachment would keep it 
safe.  However, if you do that, you then need to have your mail alias know 
how to extract the attachment (not very hard; I think I've posted a simple 
python script to do it here before; I can recreate it if you need one.)

Does anyone know of the ability of MUA's to forward as attachments?  I've
looked in Pine, but it doesn't seem to support it :( At least we have
'Bounce' as a fallback.

-- 
Frank Tobin			http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/