On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:15:19AM -0400, David T-G muttered:
> Anthony --
>
> ...and then Anthony Green said...
> %
> % This was a thought I had while deleteing spam mail and was wondering if
> % it could be done via a Mutt macro or otherwise. Couldnt really see anything
> % on mutt.org for dealing with spam.
>
> As Lars said, that's because it really isn't a mutt issue (stock answer,
> right? :-) BTW, Lars's pointer should have been to www.cauce.org
> (not cause with an "s").
>
> I haven't bothered to tie into some of the delivery-time spam filters
> mostly because I'm too lazy. I have, however, figured out how to do
> much to automate my spam submissions to spamcop; it's easy enough now
> that I usually get the "Yum, this spam is fresh!" messge when I send
> the reports :-)
>
> If you're not yet familiar with spamcop, surf on over to www.spamcop.net
> and check 'em out. It's been said before that "spamcop is for newbies"
> but it does get the job done and it doesn't require any MDA configuration
> and etcetc. The standard way to submit a spam message is to paste it into
> the web page and hit the button, but this was a PITA under one terminal
> emulator and darned near impossible under another, so I started doing
> more digging.
But it might be something to automate using the duct tape of the
net. Christiansen & Torkington, Perl Cookbook, O'Reilly, 1998, has a
recipe for automating forms submission (20.2). It is slick and I have used
it extensively for testing a form's CGI program. Can you use this to build
a perl script to submit the info to spamcop?
The recipe returns the return web page, which you could then pass to the
browser of your choice for examination or further manual transactions.
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