PYZOR(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     PYZOR(1)

NAME

       pyzor - spam-catcher using a collaborative filtering network

SYNOPSIS

       pyzor [-d] [--homedir dir] command [command_options]

OPTIONS

       -d     turn on debugging

       --homedir dir
              use  dir  as the home directory for Pyzor instead of the default ~/.pyzor.  See the files section for more information on what files
              are inside of the homedir.

COMMANDS

       check[--mbox]
              Reads on standard input an RFC 822 (email) message. Exit code is zero (0) if and only if a match is found and the  global  whitelist
              count is zero.   If --mbox is provided, then the input is assumed to be a unix mailbox, and all messages in it will be checked.   If
              multiple servers are listed in the configuration file, the exit code will be zero (0) if and only if there is a match  found  on  at
              least one server (without it being whitelisted anyplace).

       report [--mbox]
              Reads on standard input an RFC 822 (email) message. Reports to the server a digest of each message in the mailbox as spam. Writes to
              standard output a tuple of (error-code, message) from the server.   If --mbox is provided, then the input is assumed to  be  a  unix
              mailbox, and all messages in it will be sent to the server.

       whitelist [--mbox]
              Reads  on  standard  input an RFC 822 (email) message. Sends to the server a digest of each message in the mailbox for whitelisting.
              Writes to standard output a tuple of (error-code, message) from the server.   If --mbox is provided, then the input is assumed to be
              a unix mailbox, and all messages in it will be sent to the server.

       discover
              Finds  Pyzor  servers,  and writes them to ~/.pyzor/servers. This may accomplished through querying already-known servers or an HTTP
              call to a hard-coded address.

       ping   Merely requests a response from the servers.

       genkey Based upon a secret passphrase gathered from the user and salt gathered from /dev/random, prints  to  standard  output  a  tuple  of
              "salt,key".  Used to put account information into the accounts file.  See the section Using Accounts for more information.

       digest [--mbox]
              Reads  on  standard  input an RFC 822 (email) message. Writes the digest of the message to standard output.   If --mbox is provided,
              then the input is assumed to be a unix mailbox, each message's digest is written to standard output, separated by newlines.

       predigest
              Reads on standard input an RFC 822 (email) message. Writes to standard output the normalized lines of data that are  digested,  with
              the exception that the lines printed have newlines (all whitespace is removed before digesting).

USING PYZOR WITH READYEXEC

       ReadyExec  is  a system to eliminate the high startup-cost of executing scripts repeatedly. If you execute pyzor a lot, you might be inter-
       ested in installing ReadyExec and using it with pyzor.

       To use pyzor with ReadyExec, the readyexecd.py server needs to be started as:

          readyexecd.py socket_file pyzor

       socket_file can be any (non-existing) filename you wish ReadyExec to use, such as /tmp/pyzor:

          readyexecd.py /tmp/pyzor pyzor

       Individual clients are then executed as:

          readyexec socket_file options command cmd_options

       For example:

          readyexec /tmp/pyzor check
          readyexec /tmp/pyzor report
          readyexec /tmp/pyzor whitelist --mbox
          readyexec /tmp/pyzor -d ping

       ReadyExec can be found at: http://readyexec.sourceforge.net/

INTEGRATION WITH MUTT

       Add the following line to mutt.conf:

          macro index S "|/usr/bin/pyzor report"

       Then press S on the spam message in mutt to report it with pyzor.

FILES

       ~/.pyzor/config

       The format of this file is INI-style (name=value, divided into [sections]).  Names are case insensitive. All values which are filenames can
       have shell-style tildes (~) in them. All values which are relative filenames are interpreted to be relative to the Pyzor homedir.

       Defaults
        [client]
        ServersFile = servers
        AccountsFile = accounts
        DiscoverServersURL = http://pyzor.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/inform-servers-0-3-x
        Timeout = 5

SEE ALSO

       pyzord(1)

AUTHOR

       This  manpage was originally written by Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org> for the Debian distribution of pyzor but may be used by oth-
       ers.   The main author of pyzor is Frank J. Tobin <ftobin@neverending.org>.  The main project page for pyzor can be found at http://source-
       forge.net/projects/pyzor

                                                                    10 Oct 2002                                                           PYZOR(1)