Mail::Abuse 1.025

Mail::Abuse is a Perl module that helps parse and respond to miscellaneous abuse complaints.

SYNOPSIS
use Mail::Abuse;

This module and the accompaining software can be used to automatically parse and respond to various formats of abuse complaints. This software is geared towards abuse desk administrators who need sophisticated tools to deal with the complains.
Mail::Abuse is actually a bundle of modules that provide various services. This documentation provides a general description of the functions provided by each one. No useful code is provided in the Mail::Abuse module, appart from this documentation and the version information below.

The following classes/packages are part of this distribution.

Mail::Abuse::Report

A report is a collection made of the received report and ths incidents it describes. See Mail::Abuse::Report for more information.

Mail::Abuse::Incident

An incident is each of the individual policy violations that are presented in a given report. A report should have at least, one incident. See Mail::Abuse::Incident for more information.

Mail::Abuse::Processor

Once the reports are analyzed and its incidents are extracted, you will want to do something with the information. This is the job of a processor. See Mail::Abuse::Processor for more information.

Mail::Abuse::Reader

Abuse reports can be fetched from a variety of places and through various protocols. This is what readers do: Read a report. See Mail::Abuse::Reader for more information.

Mail::Abuse::Filter

An abuse report might contain incidents that are not to be handled by us. A filter remove incidents that does not belong to our network. See Mail::Abuse::Filter for more information.

All of the modules take a lot of their configuration information from a specially formatted file.

This distribution also includes a number of scripts. See the bin/ directory for more information.