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SPAM TERMINATOR ELIMATE SPAM FOREVER

System Requirements

  • Perl 5
  • Sendmail
  • .forward

Preliminaries

  • Determine the path to PERL 5 on your web server host.  Note that some web hosting companies run both PERL 4 and PERL 5.  Make ABSOLUTELY sure you are not setting this up under PERL 4.  Ask your administrator if you are not sure.
  • Unpack the tar archive on your desktop using a program that unpacks UNIX TAR ARCHIVES. If you don't have such a program then download WINZIP FREE from SHAREWARE.COM. 
  • After you have unpacked the TAR archive you will have a collection of folders and files on your desktop.  Now you have to do some basic editing of each of these files (or at least some of them).  Use a text editor such as wordpad, notepad, BBEdit, simpletext, or teachtext to edit the files.  These are NOT WORD PROCESSOR DOCUMENTS they are just simple TEXT files so don't save them as word processor documents or save them with extentions such as .txt or they will NOT WORK.   Note that there may be a some files inside of folders which are "blank".   This is normal.

Preparing the CGI scripts

Define Path To PERL 5

The first step is to open up each and every file that has a .cgi extention and edit line number one of each script.  Each of the cgi scripts is written in perl 5. For your scripts to run they must know where perl 5 is installed on your web server. The path to perl 5 is defined to a cgi script in the first line of the file. In each of the cgi scripts the first line of code looks something like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

If the path to perl 5 on your web server is different from /usr/bin/perl you must edit the first line of each cgi script to reflect the correct path. If the path to perl 5 is the same no changes are necessary. If you do not know the path to perl 5 ask the webmaster or system administrator at your server site.  

Configure popper.pl

spamkiller.pl

Create a directory inside the cgi-bin called /cgi-bin/spamkiller/ and upload spamkiller.pl there and chmod to 755.  Open popper.pl and edit the top of the script.  Inside this script are a few variables to set.   Also edit the dot.forward file (rename to .forward) and upload it into your LOGIN DIRECTORY (HOME DIRECTORY).  Make sure userpermission for .forward is NOT set to root (set user permission to the username and group permission to users).  Upload buddylist.txt into /cgi-bin/spamkiller and chmod to 666 or 777.

  • $mailprogram = "/usr/sbin/sendmail";
  • $forwardmailto = "info\@psybercore.com";
  • $buddylist = "/full/path/to/buddylist.txt";
  • path to sendmail
  • your email address
  • full path to buddylist.txt

Using the script

It's easy!  Simply open up "buddylist.txt" with notepad or some text editor and add all your friends and keywords (eg: names of your friends or company names) that you WANT to contact you.   Any keyword or phrase in this list that matches the FROM address will get through.  

If you also want your clients to contact you from random email addresses setup a form on your website and make sure the sendmail routine is altered so the sending address has some special keyword appended to it like this

SUPERSCRIPTS SUPPORT (someone@whatever.com)

Then I add SUPERSCRIPTS SUPPORT to my buddylist.txt file and it will accept anyone that submits from my website form.  You can make it more secure using encrypted phrases like "93810ca9cKK3" depending on how secure you want things to be.  If you want to accept offers from companies like "ebay" for example just add "ebay.com" and anything from ebay.com will be accepted.

See?  The buddylist.txt file is a phrase finder.