1 ;;; uce.el --- facilitate reply to unsolicited commercial email
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1996, 1998, 2000-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: stanislav shalunov <shalunov@mccme.ru>
6 ;; Created: 10 Dec 1996
7 ;; Keywords: mail, uce, unsolicited commercial email
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26 ;; The code in this file provides a semi-automatic means of replying
27 ;; to unsolicited commercial email (UCE) you might get. Currently, it
28 ;; only works with Rmail and Gnus. If you would like to make it work
29 ;; with other mail readers, see the mail-client dependent section of
30 ;; uce-reply-to-uce. Please let me know about your changes so I can
31 ;; incorporate them. I'd appreciate it.
33 ;; The command uce-reply-to-uce, if called when the current message
34 ;; buffer is a UCE, will setup a reply *mail* buffer as follows. It
35 ;; scans the full headers of the message for: 1) the normal return
36 ;; address of the sender (From, Reply-To lines), and puts these
37 ;; addresses into the To: header, along with abuse@offenders.host; 2)
38 ;; the mailhub that first saw this message, and adds the address of
39 ;; its postmaster into the To: header; and 3), finally, it looks at
40 ;; the Message-Id and adds the postmaster of that host to the list of
43 ;; Then, we add an "Errors-To: nobody@localhost" header, so that if
44 ;; some of these addresses are not actually correct, we will never see
45 ;; bounced mail. Also, mail-self-blind and mail-archive-file-name
46 ;; take no effect: the ideology is that we don't want to save junk or
49 ;; Then we insert a template into the buffer (a customizable message
50 ;; that explains what has happened), customizable signature, and the
51 ;; original message with full headers and envelope for postmasters.
52 ;; Then the buffer is left for editing.
54 ;; The reason that the function uce-reply-to-uce is mail-client
55 ;; dependent is that we want the full headers of the original message,
56 ;; nothing stripped. If we use the normal means of inserting the
57 ;; original message into the *mail* buffer, headers like Received:
58 ;; (not really headers, but envelope lines) will be stripped, while
59 ;; they bear valuable information for us and postmasters. I do wish
60 ;; that there would be some portable way to write this function, but I
61 ;; am not aware of any.
65 ;; Place uce.el in your load-path (and optionally byte-compile it).
66 ;; Add the following line to your init file:
67 ;; (autoload 'uce-reply-to-uce "uce" "Reply to UCEs" t nil)
68 ;; If you want to use it with Gnus rather than Rmail:
69 ;; (setq uce-mail-reader 'gnus)
73 ;; uce-message-text is a template that will be inserted into buffer.
74 ;; It has a reasonable default. If you want to write some scarier
75 ;; one, please do so and send it to me. Please keep it polite.
77 ;; uce-signature behaves just like mail-signature. If nil, nothing is
78 ;; inserted, if t, file ~/.signature is used, if a string, its
79 ;; contents are inserted into buffer.
81 ;; uce-uce-separator is a line that separates your message from the
82 ;; UCE that you enclose.
84 ;; uce-subject-line will be used as the subject of the outgoing message.
89 ;; Dec 10, 1996 -- posted draft version to gnu.sources.emacs
91 ;; Dec 11, 1996 -- fixed some typos, and Francesco Potortì
92 ;; <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it> pointed out that my use of defvar was
93 ;; weird, suggested fix, and added let form.
95 ;; Dec 17, 1996 -- made scanning for host names little bit more clever
96 ;; (obviously bogus stuff like localhost is now ignored).
98 ;; Nov 11, 1997 -- incorporated changes from Mikael Djurfeldt
99 ;; <mdj@nada.kth.se> to make uce.el work with Gnus. Changed the text
100 ;; of message that is sent.
102 ;; Dec 3, 1997 -- changes from Gareth Jones <gdj1@gdjones.demon.co.uk>
103 ;; handling Received headers following some line like `From:'.
105 ;; Aug 16, 2000 -- changes from Detlev Zundel
106 ;; <detlev.zundel@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> to make uce.el work with the
107 ;; latest Gnus. Lars told him it should work for all versions of Gnus
108 ;; younger than three years.
113 (defvar gnus-original-article-buffer
)
114 (defvar mail-reply-buffer
)
117 ;; Those sections of code which are dependent upon
118 ;; RMAIL are only evaluated if we have received a message with RMAIL...
122 "Facilitate reply to unsolicited commercial email."
126 (defcustom uce-mail-reader
'rmail
127 "A symbol indicating which mail reader you are using.
128 Choose from: `gnus', `rmail'."
129 :type
'(choice (const gnus
) (const rmail
))
133 (defcustom uce-setup-hook nil
134 "Hook to run after UCE rant message is composed.
135 This hook is run after `mail-setup-hook', which is run as well."
139 (defcustom uce-message-text
140 "Recently, I have received an Unsolicited Commercial E-mail from you.
141 I do not like UCE's and I would like to inform you that sending
142 unsolicited messages to someone while he or she may have to pay for
143 reading your message may be illegal. Anyway, it is highly annoying
144 and not welcome by anyone. It is rude, after all.
146 If you think that this is a good way to advertise your products or
147 services you are mistaken. Spamming will only make people hate you, not
150 If you have any list of people you send unsolicited commercial emails to,
151 REMOVE me from such list immediately. I suggest that you make this list
154 ----------------------------------------------------
156 If you are not an administrator of any site and still have received
157 this message then your email address is being abused by some spammer.
158 They fake your address in From: or Reply-To: header. In this case,
159 you might want to show this message to your system administrator, and
160 ask him/her to investigate this matter.
162 Note to the postmaster(s): I append the text of UCE in question to
163 this message; I would like to hear from you about action(s) taken.
164 This message has been sent to postmasters at the host that is
165 mentioned as original sender's host (I do realize that it may be
166 faked, but I think that if your domain name is being abused this way
167 you might want to learn about it, and take actions) and to the
168 postmaster whose host was used as mail relay for this message. If
169 message was sent not by your user, could you please compare time when
170 this message was sent (use time in Received: field of the envelope
171 rather than Date: field) with your sendmail logs and see what host was
172 using your sendmail at this moment of time.
176 "This is the text that `uce-reply-to-uce' command will put in reply buffer.
177 Some of spamming programs in use will be set up to read all incoming
178 to spam address email, and will remove people who put the word `remove'
179 on beginning of some line from the spamming list. So, when you set it
180 up, it might be a good idea to actually use this feature.
182 Value nil means insert no text by default, lets you type it in."
183 :type
'(choice (const nil
) string
)
186 (defcustom uce-uce-separator
187 "----- original unsolicited commercial email follows -----"
188 "Line that will begin quoting of the UCE.
189 Value nil means use no separator."
190 :type
'(choice (const nil
) string
)
193 (defcustom uce-signature mail-signature
194 "Text to put as your signature after the note to UCE sender.
195 Value nil means none, t means insert `~/.signature' file (if it happens
196 to exist), if this variable is a string this string will be inserted
198 :type
'(choice (const nil
) (const t
) string
)
201 (defcustom uce-default-headers
202 "Errors-To: nobody@localhost\nPrecedence: bulk\n"
203 "Additional headers to use when responding to a UCE with \\[uce-reply-to-uce].
204 These are mostly meant for headers that prevent delivery errors reporting."
205 :type
'(choice (const nil
) string
)
208 (defcustom uce-subject-line
209 "Spam alert: unsolicited commercial e-mail"
210 "Subject of the message that will be sent in response to a UCE."
214 ;; End of user options.
217 (defvar rmail-buffer
)
218 (declare-function rmail-msg-is-pruned
"rmail" ())
219 (declare-function mail-strip-quoted-names
"mail-utils" (address))
220 (declare-function rmail-maybe-set-message-counters
"rmail" ())
221 (declare-function rmail-toggle-header
"rmail" (&optional arg
))
224 (defun uce-reply-to-uce (&optional ignored
)
225 "Compose a reply to unsolicited commercial email (UCE).
226 Sets up a reply buffer addressed to: the sender, his postmaster,
227 his abuse@ address, and the postmaster of the mail relay used.
228 You might need to set `uce-mail-reader' before using this."
230 ;; Start of mail-client dependent section.
231 (let ((message-buffer
232 (cond ((eq uce-mail-reader
'gnus
) gnus-original-article-buffer
)
233 ((eq uce-mail-reader
'rmail
) (bound-and-true-p rmail-buffer
))
235 "Variable uce-mail-reader set to unrecognized value"))))
237 (or (and message-buffer
(get-buffer message-buffer
))
238 (error "No mail buffer, cannot find UCE"))
239 (switch-to-buffer message-buffer
)
240 ;; We need the message with headers pruned.
241 ;; Why? All we do is get the from and reply-to headers. ?
242 (and (eq uce-mail-reader
'rmail
)
243 (not (setq pruned
(rmail-msg-is-pruned)))
244 (rmail-toggle-header 1))
245 (let ((to (mail-strip-quoted-names (mail-fetch-field "from" t
)))
246 (reply-to (mail-fetch-field "reply-to"))
248 ;; Initial setting of the list of recipients of our message; that's
249 ;; what they are pretending to be.
251 (format "%s" (mail-strip-quoted-names to
))
254 (setq to
(format "%s, %s" to
(mail-strip-quoted-names reply-to
))))
255 (let (first-at-sign end-of-hostname sender-host
)
256 (setq first-at-sign
(string-match "@" to
)
257 end-of-hostname
(string-match "[ ,>]" to first-at-sign
)
258 sender-host
(substring to first-at-sign end-of-hostname
))
259 (if (string-match "\\." sender-host
)
260 (setq to
(format "%s, postmaster%s, abuse%s"
261 to sender-host sender-host
))))
262 (setq mail-send-actions nil
)
263 (setq mail-reply-buffer nil
)
264 (when (eq uce-mail-reader
'rmail
)
265 (rmail-toggle-header 0)
266 (rmail-maybe-set-message-counters)) ; why?
267 (copy-region-as-kill (point-min) (point-max))
268 ;; Restore the initial header state we found.
269 (and pruned
(rmail-toggle-header 1))
270 (switch-to-buffer "*mail*")
273 (goto-char (point-min))
274 ;; Delete any internal Rmail headers.
275 (when (eq uce-mail-reader
'rmail
)
276 (search-forward "\n\n")
277 (while (re-search-backward "^X-RMAIL" nil t
)
278 (delete-region (point) (line-beginning-position 2)))
279 (goto-char (point-min)))
280 ;; Now find the mail hub that first accepted this message.
281 ;; This should try to find the last Received: header.
282 ;; Sometimes there may be other headers in between Received: headers.
283 (cond ((eq uce-mail-reader
'gnus
)
284 ;; Does Gnus always have Lines: in the end?
285 (re-search-forward "^Lines:")
287 ((eq uce-mail-reader
'rmail
)
288 (search-forward "\n\n")))
289 (re-search-backward "^Received:")
290 ;; Is this always good? It's the only thing I saw when I checked
292 ;;(if (not (re-search-forward ": \\(from\\|by\\) " eol t))
293 (unless (re-search-forward "\\(from\\|by\\) " (line-end-position) 'move
)
294 (if (looking-at "[ \t\n]+\\(from\\|by\\) ")
295 (goto-char (match-end 0))
296 (error "Failed to extract hub address")))
300 ;; And add its postmaster to the list of addresses.
301 (if (string-match "\\." (buffer-substring temp
(point)))
302 (setq to
(format "%s, postmaster@%s"
303 to
(buffer-substring temp
(point)))))
304 ;; Also look at the message-id, it helps *very* often.
305 (and (search-forward "\nMessage-Id: " nil t
)
306 ;; Not all Message-Id:'s have an `@' sign.
307 (search-forward "@" (line-end-position) t
)
312 (if (string-match "\\." (buffer-substring temp
(point)))
313 (setq to
(format "%s, postmaster@%s"
314 to
(buffer-substring temp
(point)))))))
315 (when (eq uce-mail-reader
'gnus
)
316 ;; Does Gnus always have Lines: in the end?
317 (re-search-forward "^Lines:")
320 (search-forward "\n\n" nil t
)
322 (delete-region temp
(point)))
323 ;; End of mail-client dependent section.
324 (auto-save-mode auto-save-default
)
326 (goto-char (point-min))
330 (let ((fill-prefix "\t")
331 (address-start (point)))
333 (fill-region-as-paragraph address-start
(point)))
335 (insert "Subject: " uce-subject-line
"\n")
336 (if uce-default-headers
337 (insert uce-default-headers
))
338 (if mail-default-headers
339 (insert mail-default-headers
))
340 (if mail-default-reply-to
341 (insert "Reply-to: " mail-default-reply-to
"\n"))
342 (insert mail-header-separator
"\n")
343 ;; Insert all our text. Then go back to the place where we started.
344 (if to
(setq to
(point)))
347 (insert uce-message-text
))
349 (cond ((eq uce-signature t
)
350 (if (file-exists-p "~/.signature")
353 (forward-char (cadr (insert-file-contents "~/.signature"))))))
355 (insert "\n\n-- \n" uce-signature
)))
356 ;; And text of the original message.
357 (if uce-uce-separator
358 (insert "\n\n" uce-uce-separator
"\n"))
359 ;; If message doesn't end with a newline, insert it.
360 (goto-char (point-max))
361 (or (bolp) (newline)))
362 ;; And go back to the beginning of text.
363 (if to
(goto-char to
))
364 (or to
(set-buffer-modified-p nil
))
365 ;; Run hooks before we leave buffer for editing. Reasonable usage
366 ;; might be to set up special key bindings, replace standard
367 ;; functions in mail-mode, etc.
368 (run-hooks 'mail-setup-hook
'uce-setup-hook
))))
370 (defun uce-insert-ranting (&optional ignored
)
371 "Insert text of the usual reply to UCE into current buffer."
373 (insert uce-message-text
))