way OT: add header (mailscanner) to be parsed by Outlook plugin for reporting false-negatives?

[Andrew MacLachlan]

I have implemented this in the latest release of ESVA.
It's not a button, but a URL in the footer of the message, which is included in the inline sig:

<br>--
<br>This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean.

Click'>http://mail-gw.domain.tld/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id=$id">Click here to report this message as spam.

which works nicely - although I certainly don't consider it to be a perfect solution.

The CGI that does the actual work is:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI qw(:standard);
print "Content-type: text/html \n\n";

$query    = new CGI;
$sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix";
$id = param("id");
$datenumber = param("datenumber");
$to = param("to");
$msgtorelease = "/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/$datenumber/spam/$id";

open(MAIL, "|$sendmail $to <$msgtorelease") or die "Cannot open $sendmail: $!";
close(MAIL);

# redirect to success page 
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=/released.html\">";


The reason I'm using sendmail.postfix is two-fold:
a) I use Postfix
b) Sendmail releases the message just fine - but to everyone in the headers (doesn't go down well with everyone)

There is also a very similar release mechanism.
The beauty with this method is that it doesn't care which mail client you use, so no mods to make.

-Andy


----- Original Message ----
From: --[ UxBoD ]-- <uxbod at splatnix.net>
To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
Sent: Saturday, 19 May, 2007 11:43:57 AM
Subject: Re: way OT: add header (mailscanner) to be parsed by Outlook plugin for reporting false-negatives?

Why not just have a shared IMAP folder and let the users drop SPAM into
that ? Saves writing a plugin.

On Fri, 18 May 2007 17:58:21 -0400
"Furnish, Trever G" <TGFurnish at herffjones.com> wrote:

> Ok, sorry to go so far OT, but if you all can wax sentimental about
> perforators and the Tardis, I this this ought to be ok. :-)  I even
> added a mailscanner function (adding a header to a processed message)
> to make it slightly more ON-topic.
>  
> I already have a modified MailWatch in place that let's users see
> their quarantined mail and release messages one at a time, and I can
> easily have MailScanner add a header to "ham" containing information
> to be acted on by a user agent (Outlook).  I'm wondering though, has
> anyone put together an add-on for Outlook to allow easy "Report this
> message as spam" functionality?  I'd like my (Outlook) users to be
> able to report spam that I've missed without having to leave the
> client to do so. 
> I'd imagine it working like so:
> For "ham", MS would add a header with uniquely identifiable info, such
> as the message ID.  When the message is viewed in Outlook, the user
> would say, "Hey, this is missed spam!", and click a checkbox, which
> would in turn causethis (as yet non-existant?) Outlook plugin to do
> *something* (such as executing a program in another thread, quietly)
> which would connect to my mailscanner system and report the message as
> spam.
>  
> I'm seriously considering writing such a plugin, but if anyone's
> already done so or has a better solution, I'd rather avoid the wasted
> effort. 
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