[SC-Help] Re: Reporting Spam via Cyrus

[Mike Easter]

Reconstructed into a trimmed and conversational format to facilitate
clarity, accuracy, and context.

Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> Forrest Aldrich wrote:
>>
>>> I just switched to Cyrus IMAP - and it didn't occur to me that my
>>> reporting habits (to Spamcop) would need to change, due to the
>>> structure of how the mail is stored.  (I had mutt macros).
>>
>> I'm not clear on what you are asking.
>>
>> Cyrus is mail /server/ software which can be used with lots of
>> different email clients.

>> Apparently you were using mutt with something other than Cyrus.

>> Cyrus is not a mail client.  What client will you be using with
>> Cyrus?
>>
>> That client is what will be used to submit your spams.

>>> I wonder whom else is using Cyrus here

I'm not using cyrus, but with my mua, I would be using /exactly/ the
same submit sequence whether I were IMAP or POP3.  I would just handle
my folders slightly differently.

> I have had setup a series of scripts that handled reporting of spam
> via different macros - for Spamcop, the reports are sent as MIME
> attachments.

Correct and of course.  As are mine, as I forward as attachment.   The
SC instructions for spam submission via mutt are here
http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/201.html --  Mutt has a
mime_forward setting --- it's a good idea to create a macro for
forwarding spam to SpamCop -- 


Your 'problem' as I understand it, isn't in how to submit your spams,
but in how to handle your mutt folders for IMAP, which is discussed in
the link I posted before that you top posted over

<snip>
Mike Easter wrote:

> Here's a discussion of using mutt with cyrus IMAP
> http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/
> 1. Getting started
> 1.1. How to write an IMAP mailbox in mutt
</snip>


> Now that I have a different folder format, I need to come up with a
> better way to streamline this.

I'm still not clear on what you are saying.  You are talking about
streamlining.  I guess I'm asking you if you can get your mail into a
mutt imap folder so that you can forward it as an attachment.  That
isn't streamlining.  That is fundamental.  If you can't 'get' your spam
or your email, then you can't forward it as an attachment.

Do you currently have an operational imap mailbox in mutt as described
above -- or not?  Nevermind 'streamlining'.  maibox - yes or no?

> It's a good opportunity to combine
> some of the other mechanisms that I'd been doing separately, like
> Razor2 reporting, et al.

Before combining -- Do you have a mailbox?  I'm still not crystal clear
on the following -- You are still using mutt - check Yes or No.

You have an IMAP mailbox in mutt - check Yes or No.

> The format of a Cyrus file is not exactly mbox - and I believe
> sa-learn had a problem with it (I'm using the latest SpamAssassin).

You can receive a mail in mutt from cyrus - check Yes or No.

> So I figured I'd ask here to get some ideas before going completely
> blind ;-)

I understand about asking here - and I also understand I'm not mutt and
don't use cyrus -- but we still aren't clear, and we are going to have a
hard time getting clear if you don't trim everything out of your reply
which you aren't responding to and put your response to any words which
I've typed right under those words so that they will be in context.

Whenever there's confusion going on in a conversation, the trimming and
contextualizing is imperative.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin