Razor−Agents − Collection of files for checking, reporting, and revoking spam
Vipul’s Razor is a distributed, collaborative, spam detection, reporting, and filtering network. The primary focus of the system is to identify and remove all email spam from the internet. Visit the website at http://razor.sourceforge.net/.
First a razorhome directory should be created where log, conf, and cached server information will live. This is done via "−create" option to razor−admin(1). See man page for details.
You can immediately check spam using razor−check(1). See man page for details.
To report spam, an identity must be registered. This is done via "−register" option to razor−admin(1). After that, razor−report(1) and razor−revoke(1) will work flawlessly.
All Razor-Agents share a configuration file. The contents of the configuration file are detailed in the razor−agent.conf(5) manpage.
Config file is computed before razorhome, in the following order:
−conf=/path/file.conf
used if readable, else
<home>/.razor/razor−agent.conf used if readable,
else
/etc/razor/razor−agent.conf used if readable, else
all defaults are used.
To see
configuration defaults, do
razor-admin −create
−conf=/tmp/razor2−defaults.conf
All Razor-Agents also share a razorhome directory, where identity, logging, and cached information about servers is stored. Razorhome is computed after configuration file, in the following order.
−home=/tmp/razor/
used if readable, else
'razorhome' from configuration file used if readable, else
<home>/.razor/ used if readable, else
<home>/.razor/ is created. if that fails,
no razorhome.
NOTE: If there is no razorhome, razor−report and
razor−revoke will
not work unless you specify −ident=/path/identity
razor−check will still work.
Besides those
listed at the end with their own manpages, Razor Agents also
has the following files.
razorhome/identity
Usually a symlink to identity file containing user+pass. Used by razor−report(1) and razor−revoke(1).
razorhome/razor−agent.log
Default log file. To change, edit razor−agent.conf(5).
razorhome/servers.*.lst
Cached list of Razor Servers. If more than one, they are ordered by closest ping time.
razorhome/server.<name>.lst
Cached info for <name> server. The "srl" key in this file is compared against the server greeting, and if server’s is greater, new cache info is retrieved from the server.
razor-check −d −debuglevel=9 mbox
Checks spam in mbox. prints numbers for those found to be spam. −d logs to stdout, −debuglevel=9 is verbose logging
razor-admin −create −home=/home/chad/.razor −d −s
Creates razorhome in /home/chad/.razor, log to stdout, does not connect to server (−s simulate).
razor-report spam −debuglevel=0
sends spam to server, with no log msgs.
Vipul Ved Prakash, <[email protected]> and Chad Norwood <[email protected]>
razor−agent.conf(5), razor−check(1), razor−admin(1), razor−report(1), razor−revoke(1), razor−whitelist(5)