Re: newbie install questions

[Roman S. <rn...@on...>]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Frank Tobin wrote:

>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?

>> 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.

Probably better solution is to add a special field to the message - digest
value made by Pyzor. Then simple script (formail) could extract the digest and
report digest to server. However, I do not know if new pyzor supports
specifying digest on a command line.

Please note that Sendmail (or other MTA) could also alter a message!

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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