SpamBOT

SpamBOT is an automatic email response robot that reports spam email to the SpamCGI. You set SpamBOT up on your mail server either as an address users can forward spam email to and/or a catch address that should never receive email (thus if it does you know it is spam).

It helps to advertise the catch address on your website with a note telling users not to send email to it. Or as an invisible mailto: link. E.g.

    <a href="mailto:johnsmith@netwin.co.nz"></a>

as spammers often use web crawlers to harvest email addresses to spam.

Command line options

-version	Prints version number and exits.
-host x	Name/ip of web server running SpamCGI. Default=www.smitespam.com
-smtphost x	Name/ip of SurgeMail. Default=127.0.0.1
-debug	Enables debug logging.
-port x	Port number for webserver running SpamCGI. Default=80
-smtpport x	Port number for SurgeMail's SMTP. Default=25
-script x	Script (link to SpamCGI) to POST spam to. Default=/scripts/spamcgi.exe
-email x	Email address to inform SpamCGI is reporting spam.
-pass x	Password for above email address.
-header	Email header containing CRC. Default=X-Smite-CRC
-catcher	Enables catcher style email processing.

Examples

The examples below are example SurgeMail Global Redirection Rules.

This example is an address users can send email to if they think it is spam. It will be recorded in SpamCGI as being "robot reported" by user spambot@netwin.co.nz.

    |d:\surgemail\spambot.exe -email spambot@netwin.co.nz -pass secret -smtphost netwin.co.nz

This example is a catcher. All email sent to it will be recorded in SpamCGI as being "robot reported" by user johnsmith@netwin.co.nz.

    |d:\surgemail\spambot.exe -email johnsmith@netwin.co.nz -pass secret -debug -catcher

Download SpamBot

Version 1.0b
FreeBSD 4+ (x86)	FreeBSD 4.0 and later
Linux (x86)	Linux (libc6)
Solaris 7+ (Sparc)	Solaris 7 and later
Win32 (x86)	Microsoft Windows (9x,ME,NT,2000,XP)