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Introduction

This is the README for "jmba", a junk mail buffering agent. This program is designed to queue email until the sender's email address has been verified, at which point the original email is delivered.

JMBA is designed to be used in conjunction with a spam filter such as QSF (http://www.ivarch.com/programs/qsf.shtml). When the spam filter says it thinks an email is spam, it can be passed to JMBA. JMBA will queue it and send an email to the sender containing a key; if the sender replies, the original email is "unfrozen" from the queue and delivered.

Of course this assumes that senders of spam won't reply to their email. This is a fair assumption since at the moment the vast majority of spam is sent with a forged (invalid) envelope sender, so replying direct to the sender won't work and therefore JMBA will never receive a response to its "please verify" message.

Requirements

You will need "procmail" installed to use this package. "qsf" is recommended.

Documentation

A manual page is included in this distribution. If you prefer plain text, then look at "doc/quickref.txt" for a text version.

Compilation

To compile the package, type "sh ./configure", which should generate a Makefile for your system. You may then type "make" to build everything.

See the file "doc/INSTALL" for more about the "configure" script.

Developers note that you can do "./configure --enable-debugging" to cause debugging support to be built in. Also note that doing "make index" will generate an HTML code index (using "ctags" and "cproto"); this index lists all files used, all functions defined, and all TODOs marked in the code.

Author

This package is copyright (C) 2005 Andrew Wood, and is being distributed under the terms of the Artistic License and other licenses. For more details, see the file "doc/COPYING".

You can contact me by using the contact form on my web page at http://www.ivarch.com/.

The "jmba" home page is at:

http://www.ivarch.com/programs/jmba.shtml

The latest version can always be found here.

Credit is also due to:

• Ondrej Suchy - provided Czech (cs_CZ) translation
• Nick Rosier - suggested logging

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