Spam report script

This perl script generates a detailed report about your received spam emails. It scans your procmail logfile for new spam emails and logs all relevant From: and Subject: lines to an email-report. This report will be emailed to you every day (depends on your cron settings).

Report example

Report generated at 21.02.2005 : 06:05:01

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Total number of received mails	: 71
Total number of spam mail	: 31
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Information about the new mails:

From    : aipymo@osb.net Sun Feb 20 07:44:16
Subject : Jo1Iy gO0d anti spyware

From    : xzklzkie@dost.com Sun Feb 20 09:10:25
Subject : 4 times a year not enough

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Installation

1. Edit spam.pl and define everything to suit your needs.
2. Is the path of the perl interpreter in the first line correct?
3. Create a crontab entry: crontab -e and add a line similar to this:5 6 * * * /app/home/user/spam.pl. This will send a report 5 minutes after 6am every day. The path is the path to your spam.pl file.
4. Make spam.pl executable: chmod a+x spam.pl

Dependencies

• procmail
• spamassassin

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