Tag: Software

A lot of spammers use modified words to get throuth spam filters. What they do is take a word like ‘casino’ and insert a random character into it. For example ‘ca!sino’. If you get a lot of spam with words modifed like this, then you can use sa_patgen.pl to generate pattern rules for SpamAssassin.

All you have to do is specify the score to add for each modified word match (I use 0.5) and a list of words like casino, gambling, viagra, etc. The script will output a set of rules to match modified words. You can save the output in your local.cf file or pipe it somewhere else.

sa_patgen.pl

Although Mutt can query LDAP directories for addresses directly, sometimes connectivity to LDAP server is troublesome (firewalls, company policies, etc). One way to go around this problem would be to create Mutt addressbook regularly from the content of LDAP directory. This script does exactly this. Specify which LDAP server to query, the branch where people records are, and the filter to use. Output can be redirected to the file of your choice.

ldap2mutt.pl

This script is an attempt of improving NovaStor NovaNet 8 notification system. It allows for different messages to different roles (backup administrator/IT manager/etc).

This code is very old and I haven’t looked at for some time now. I am also not using NovaNet anymore, so you are on your own.

novamail.tar.gz

This script helps in monitoring of remote FTP server for changes in files and directories. During the first run a recursive listing will be saved to a local file, which will be updated on all consequtivee runs. Differences will be reported in GNU diff format.

ftp-watch.pl