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askfilter(1)               Active Spam Killer Manual              askfilter(1)


NAME

       askfilter - Active Spam Killer


SYNOPSIS

       askfilter [--procmail] [--logfile=logfile] [--loglevel=loglevel]
       [--home=homedir]


DESCRIPTION

       Active Spam Killer (ASK) is a challenge-authentication anti-spam tool
       that attempts to validate unknown senders before allowing delivery of
       their message. Validation occurs by means of a challenge reply sent to
       senders who are not yet known to the system. Messages are kept in a
       queue pending confirmation until the sender replies to the challenge.
       Further messages coming from confirmed senders are delivered
       immediately.

       ASK expects incoming mails on the standard input and performs delivery
       directly to the user's mailbox, as specified in the ~.askrc
       configuration file. If using the --procmail switch, ASK works as a
       procmail(1) filter, delivering messages to stdout and setting the
       appropriate return code for procmail.

       New users should always execute the asksetup(1) bootstrap program to
       create the initial ~/.ask directory and a template .askrc file.


OPTIONS

       --procmail
              In this mode, normal messages will be delivered to stdout and
              the corresponding exit codes will be used to mark delivery or
              not.  Use this switch when invoking ASK from procmail(1)

       --logfile=filename
              Specifies the file to be used for logging.

       --loglevel=loglevel
              Specifies the desired logging level. Defaults to 0 (no logging).

       --home=homedir
              Use homedir as the user's home directory. This is needed with
              some MTAs that do not set the HOME environment variable. It is
              also useful to run several, isolated ASK configurations with a
              unique user account.


FILES

       ~/.askrc
              Main configuration file.
       ~/.ask
              This directory contains the queued files, temporary files and
              lists.


DOCUMENTATION

       The program's home page and the complete documentation can be found at
       http://www.paganini.net/ask


BUGS

       Bugs? Where? :)


AUTHOR

       Marco Paganini <paganini@paganini.net>


SEE ALSO

       asksenders(1), asksetup(1), procmail(1)

GNU                                  2003                         askfilter(1)

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