On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 22:40, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > I whipped out a little hack tonight, as a possible solution for my users who > just want spam to disappear, to act as a safety net. > > It's a small client C program, intended to receive marked spam on STDIN. It > parse out a Date, From, and Subjet line, and sends them as a UDP packet to a > perl server process, which logs this to an SQL database. > > The idea is for a user who doesn't receive a message they are expecting to > be able to check the log (via a web page, not yet made). If they see the > from/subject they were expecting, they can request the message to be resent, > see about whitelisting, or take whatever action is needed. > > Already I'm thinking of changes -- this was designed to run the server > process on a logging machine, separate from the mail server. However, I'm > thinking of changing it to run the server on the same mail machine. If > connection was lost to the SQL server, it could log to a text file, that > could be reloaded later. (I think it is more likely to loose packets to > another machine, then to the local machine on a Unix socket). > > This is a 'first draft', comments welcome, especially any problems in my C, > which is quite rusty. I wouldn't suggest non-programmers trying to use it -- > this is the result of about 3 hours codeing while watching the Yankee game > :-) > > Grab it from http://www.westnet.com/~chris/lognul-0.0.tar.gz > > (I should say, this was written and compiles on Solaris 8) > > -Chris >
I like the idea but not being a C coder, I'm going to have to wait. Let me know when it reaches a stable beta. -- AltGrendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
