NAME

Mail::Abuse - Helps parse and respond to miscellaneous abuse complaints

SYNOPSIS

  use Mail::Abuse;

DESCRIPTION

This module and the accompaining software can be used to automatically parse and respond to various formats of abuse complaints. This software is geared towards abuse desk administrators who need sophisticated tools to deal with the complains.

Mail::Abuse is actually a bundle of modules that provide various services. This documentation provides a general description of the functions provided by each one. No useful code is provided in the Mail::Abuse module, appart from this documentation and the version information below.

The following classes/packages are part of this distribution.

Mail::Abuse::Report

A report is a collection made of the received report and ths incidents it describes. See Mail::Abuse::Report for more information.

Mail::Abuse::Incident

An incident is each of the individual policy violations that are presented in a given report. A report should have at least, one incident. See Mail::Abuse::Incident for more information.

Mail::Abuse::Processor

Once the reports are analyzed and its incidents are extracted, you will want to do something with the information. This is the job of a processor. See Mail::Abuse::Processor for more information.

Mail::Abuse::Reader

Abuse reports can be fetched from a variety of places and through various protocols. This is what readers do: Read a report. See Mail::Abuse::Reader for more information.

Mail::Abuse::Filter

An abuse report might contain incidents that are not to be handled by us. A filter remove incidents that does not belong to our network. See Mail::Abuse::Filter for more information.

All of the modules take a lot of their configuration information from a specially formatted file.

This distribution also includes a number of scripts. See the bin/ directory for more information.

EXPORT

None by default.

HISTORY

$Log: Abuse.pm,v $ Revision 1.26 2007/06/22 20:44:23 lem Fixed a test error pointed out by Mark Overmeer. Thanks MarkOv!

Revision 1.25 2006/03/31 15:17:10 lem New release. Notable changes include:

Various improvements in the message handling of Incident::Normalize.

::Incident::Log knows about some ClamAV headers, so it's not that biased towards marking a spam complaint as a virus complaint.

Added ::Processor::TableDBI.

::Processor::Store can now compress stored reports. It also supports storing the text of the report only.

See the examples and scripts that come with this release to see further changes.

Revision 1.24 2005/06/09 17:57:01 lem Fixed small typo.

This new release features cleaner tests. Also lookups in DBI data sources for things like IP pool assignments, Radius and DHCP logs and similar data makes it easier to scale up to larger operations.

Mail::Abuse::Reader::GoogleGroups will likely be deprecated from production use at a later release. It is non-functional since Google Groups Beta replaced the traditional interface.

Revision 1.23 2005/03/16 22:15:09 lem Added Mail::Abuse::Processor::Score

Revision 1.22 2004/05/29 17:52:53 lem Version bump

Revision 1.21 2004/03/03 21:00:54 lem Bump version to install internally.

Revision 1.20 2004/03/01 15:26:29 lem Added popfetch

Revision 1.19 2004/02/17 21:50:06 lem Updated Mail::Abuse::Incident::MyNetWatchman

Revision 1.18 2004/02/16 17:20:29 lem Freeze for next release

Revision 1.17 2004/02/15 19:39:42 lem Changes to ::Incident::Log. Added requester. Changed doc structure to include the CVS log in the docs, altough this is not that useful for this module.

LICENSE AND WARRANTY

This code and all accompanying software comes with NO WARRANTY. You use it at your own risk.

This code and all accompanying software can be used freely under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Luis E. Muñoz <luismunoz@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

perl(1).

cpanm Mail::Abuse

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Mail::Abuse