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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 immedi‐
       ately.

       ASK expects incoming mails on the standard input and performs  delivery
       directly	 to the user's mailbox, as specified in the ~.askrc configura‐
       tion 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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