[SC-Help] Re: Automated reporting?

[Mike Easter]

Forrest Aldrich wrote:

> A while ago, I switched my config over to the new SC configuration
> where you identify your mail gateways, et al.

That's called 'mailhosts'

>  I thought this was an
> effort to help automate reports (ie: not have to confirm them via the
> web).

If you are going to be a quick reporter, it is a requirement that you be
mailhosted 'first' and 'approved' second.  There is more difference to
quick reporting than just not having to review and confirm the report
and notification process..

A properly configured mailhosts decreases the likelihood of a parser
error reporting your own provider, along with decreasing chances of some
other parse mistakes.  However, the possibility of a parsing error is
never eliminated altogether.

> Is this changed since then?

Quick reporting still requires being mailhosted.  A quick report does
not require or allow the reporter to review how SC is going to
report/notify the spamsource.  A quick report also does not parse the
spambody for spamvertiser links nor notify the provider/s for the
spamvertisements.  That result has advantages and disadvantages.  So,
the quick report is both faster and/but unreviewed, as such has the
danger of reporting your own provider or other mistakes unreviewed, and
reports and notifies only spamsources and not spamvertisers.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin