X-Git-Url: https://git.deb.at/w?p=pkg%2Ft-prot.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=df56ca0edc32590f72d1e13f763b773b2832a8f9;hp=3636629e3ba51f6a67242882213bc2f563aa99b4;hb=dbb28dd9bd2698836f6a0510d0e1c640c8dcc294;hpb=9a69a9aaad35184ed236f415208041bf19e747e3 diff --git a/README b/README index 3636629..df56ca0 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - t-prot -- TOFU protection - ========================= +T-PROT -- TOFU protection +========================= 1. What the hell is TOFU? As the man page says: @@ -10,45 +10,38 @@ text at the top; obviously they think that quoted text must not be changed at all. This is quite annoying as it needlessly sends a lot of data even when it is not required. Some editing of messages is desired. - Please point these people to the page http://learn.to/edit_messages - - thank you! + Please point these people to the page + http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/edit.html + Thank you! 2. What does the script do? - It detects, and when demanded hides annoying parts in rfc822 messages: - TOFU, signatures (especially when they are too long), excessive - punktuation, blocks of empty lines, trailing spaces and tabs. - For use inside of MTAs or MDAs it may exit with appropriate libc exit - codes, so annoying messages may be bounced easily. + It detects, and when demanded hides annoying parts in rfc5322 messages: + TOFU, huge quoted blocks, signatures (especially when they are too long), + excessive punctuation, blocks of empty lines, trailing spaces and tabs. + For use inside of MTAs or MDAs it exits with appropriate libc exit codes, + so annoying messages may be bounced easily. 3. For what can I use it? There are several possibilities. One is to filter your email or news - messages when displaying them in your MUA. Another is blocking annoying - messages entirely from your system - using the script in some sendmail - or procmail rule, or perhaps even inside innd. + messages when displaying them in your User Agent. Another is blocking + annoying messages entirely from your system - using the script in some + sendmail (see the man page for an example) or procmail rule, or even + inside innd. 4. Give me some example! What about an example configuration for the MUA - mutt(1)? + mutt(1), or the NUA slrn(1)? An example is included in the distribution. Please see the man page for further details on the activated features. -5. And what about other MUAs? - I just use mutt, so I do not know how to filter messages in other MUAs. - If you know how to incorporate t-prot e.g. in Gnus, please just drop me - a note. ;) +5. And what about other User Agents? + I just use mutt and slrn, but I will gladly accept configuration samples + for other user agents. There are already examples for mailcap(1) and the + Heirloom mailx (a.k.a. nail) in the contrib/ directory. The mutt example + works with mutt-kz as well. -6. And what about an example for bouncing emails? - Put a line like the following in your /etc/mail/aliases: - ------SNIPP------ - notofu: |"/usr/local/bin/t-prot -cemtS -p=user@mydomain" - ------SNIPP------ - (Do not forget to call `newaliases`.) Messages for notofu@mydomain will - be scanned for TOFU. If t-prot found TOFU in a message, it will bounce, - otherwise it will be forwarded to user@mydomain. This works great with - sendmail, if you use another MTA you probably have to adapt it. - -7. Where did the idea come from? - Many thanks to Gerhard H. Wrodnigg who uses a TOFU protection script - in order to keep the responses to his cancel bot reasonably short. The +6. Where did the idea come from? + Many thanks to Gerhard H. Wrodnigg who uses a TOFU protection script + in order to keep the responses to his cancel bot reasonably short. The entire inspiration for this hack came from the "TOFU protection" line of his script on many usenet postings.