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Automatic Spam Report to Provider Agent

By Andrew Pollack on 10/29/2014 at 09:24 AM EDT

This morning Andy Donaldson was asking on FB for code that turned a spam email into an EML attachment for reporting to anti-spam providers. I wrote this a while back for exactly that purpose. Rather than an attachment, this just creates an email to the anti-spam provider that contains the original spam message including all of it's header information and encoded mime. Essentially, if you took the body of what I'm sending and saved it as a text document with a .EML extension it would be the same thing.

It's not perfect, but it works for me. If you feel like improving on it, go ahead. For publication, I've moved a few things to constants at the top of the initialize() sub. You could hard code these, or you could get them from the user's current workstation, or whatever you want to do.

The agent is mean to be run periodically in the mail file. It looks to the "($JunkMail)" folder for any messages the user drops there. If there are any, it processes them into the format you need to report the message and sends the report, then moves the processed spam into another folder (in my case "Handled Spam") and marks it as "READ" so it stops bothering the user.



%REM
   Agent Report Missed Spam
   Created May 9, 2013 by Andrew Pollack/thenorth
   Description: Comments for Agent
%END REM
Option Public
Option Declare
Dim session As NotesSession
Dim thisdb As NotesDatabase
Const NCT_DEBUG_OUTPUT_AS_MSGBOX = True


Sub initialize()
   ' ********************************************************
   On Error GoTo errorhandle
   ' if the debug.nsf script is in place
   ' uncomment its use in the nct_outputerror sub
   Set session = New NotesSession
   Set thisdb = session.currentdatabase
   ' ********************************************************
   
   Const EMAIL_ADDRESS_TO_REPORT_TO = "reports@spamservice.com"
   Const MY_USER_ID = "John Smith/Organization"
   Const FOLDER_AFTER_REPORTING = "Handled Spam"
   Const SPAM_SOURCE_FOLDER = "($JunkMail)"
   
   session.Convertmime = false   
   Dim doc As NotesDocument, nextdoc As notesdocument
   Dim spamfolder As NotesView   
   Dim newdoc As NotesDocument
   Dim db As NotesDatabase
   Dim rtitem As notesrichtextitem
   Set db = session.Currentdatabase
   Set spamfolder = db.getview(SPAM_SOURCE_FOLDER)
   If Not spamfolder Is Nothing Then
      Set doc = spamfolder.Getfirstdocument()
      While Not doc Is nothing
         Set nextdoc = spamfolder.Getnextdocument(doc)
         set newdoc = New NotesDocument(db)
         Set rtitem = newdoc.Createrichtextitem("body")
         Call generatedfwdrt(doc, rtitem)
         newdoc.sendto = EMAIL_ADDRESS_TO_REPORT_TO
         newdoc.copyto = ""
         newdoc.blindcopyto = ""
         If doc.hasitem("subject") Then newdoc.subject = "SPAM FWD: " & doc.subject(0)
         Call newdoc.Send(False, False)
         Call rtitem.Copyitemtodocument(doc, "sourcert")
         Call doc.Putinfolder(FOLDER_AFTER_REPORTING, true)         
         Call doc.Removefromfolder(SPAM_SOURCE_FOLDER)
         Call doc.Markread(MY_USER_ID)         
         Set doc = nextdoc
      wend
   End If
   
   
   
   ' ********************************************************
alldone:
   Exit Sub
errorhandle:
   nct_outputError("Error in sub '" & Getthreadinfo(1) & "' at " & Erl & " :" & Error$)
   Resume alldone
   ' ********************************************************
End sub


Function generatedFwdRT(doc As NotesDocument, rtitem As NotesRichTextItem) As Boolean
On Error GoTo errorhandle
   Dim hasmime As Boolean, headerobjects As Variant, rcd(4) As String, n(4) As Integer, skiprcd As Boolean
   Dim spaces As String, tmp As String, startskipping As Boolean
   Dim item As NotesItem, mimeitem As NotesMIMEEntity, st As NotesStream, txt As String, tv As Variant
   Set st = session.Createstream()
   
   ForAll i In doc.Items
      If i.type = 25 Then
         hasmime = True         
         Set mimeitem = doc.Getmimeentity(i.name)         
         If Not mimeitem Is Nothing Then
            tv = doc.Getreceiveditemtext()
            If IsArray(tv) Then
               ForAll tva In tv
                  rcd(0) = ""
                  rcd(1) = ""
                  rcd(2) = ""
                  rcd(3) = ""
                  spaces = ""
                  n(1) = InStr( tva, "by ")                  
                  n(2) = InStr( n(1) + 1 , tva, "with ")
                  n(3) = InStr( n(2) + 1, tva, ";")
                  
                  skiprcd = True
                  tmp = tva                      
                  n(1) = InStr(tmp, "by ")
                  If n(1) > 0 Then                  
                     rcd(0) = Left$(tmp, n(1) - 1)
                     tmp = Right$(tmp, Len(tmp) - Len(rcd(0)))
                  End If
                  n(2) = InStr(tmp, "with ")
                  If n(2) > 0 Then
                     rcd(1) = Left$(tmp, n(2) - 1)
                     tmp = Right$(tmp, Len(tmp) - Len(rcd(1)))
                  End If
                  n(3) = InStr(tmp, ";")
                  If n(3) > 0 Then
                     rcd(2) = Left$(tmp, n(3) - 1)
                     tmp = Right$(tmp, Len(tmp) - Len(rcd(2)))
                  End If
                  rcd(3) = FullTrim(tmp)
                  If Left$(rcd(3),1) = ";" Then
                     rcd(3) = Right$(CStr(rcd(3)), Len(rcd(3)) -1)
                  End If                      
                  Call rtitem.Appendtext("Received: " & FullTrim(rcd(0)) )
                  If Not FullTrim(rcd(0)) = "" Then
                     Call rtitem.Addnewline(1,True)
                     spaces = " "
                  End If
                  
                  If Not FullTrim(rcd(1)) = "" Then
                     Call rtitem.Appendtext(spaces & FullTrim(rcd(1)) )
                     Call rtitem.Addnewline(1,True)
                     spaces = " "
                  End If
                  
                  If Not FullTrim(rcd(2)) = "" Then                     
                     Call rtitem.Appendtext(spaces & FullTrim(rcd(2)) )
                     Call rtitem.Addnewline(1,True)
                     spaces = " "
                  End If
                  
                  If Not FullTrim(rcd(3)) = "" Then
                     Call rtitem.Appendtext(spaces & FullTrim(rcd(3)) )
                     Call rtitem.Addnewline(1,True)
                     spaces = " "
                  End If
                  
               End ForAll               
            Else
               Call rtitem.Appendtext( tv )
               Call rtitem.Addnewline(1,True)
            End If
            txt = mimeitem.headers            
            tv = Split(mimeitem.headers, Chr$(10))
            If IsArray(tv) Then
               startskipping = True
               ForAll tvi In tv                                 
                  If ((Left$(tvi,10) = "Received: ") And ( skiprcd = True)) Then
                     startskipping = True
                  Else
                     n(0) = InStr(tvi, " ")
                     n(1) = InStr(tvi, ": ")               
                     If n(1) > 0 And n(1) < n(0) Then startskipping = False
                  End If                  
                  If startskipping = False Then                     
                     If InStr(tvi, "X-Notes-Item:") = 0 Then
                        txt = Join(Split(tvi, Chr$(10)), "")
                        txt = Join(Split(tvi, Chr$(13)), "")
                        If Not FullTrim(txt) = "" Then
                           Call rtitem.Appendtext( "" & txt )
                           Call rtitem.addnewline(1, True)
                        End If
                     End If
                  End If               
               End ForAll      
            Else
               Call rtitem.Appendtext( txt )
               Call rtitem.Addnewline(1,True)
            End If
            txt = mimeitem.Contentastext   
            Call rtitem.appendtext( txt)
         End If      
      End If
   End ForAll
   
   If Not hasmime Then
      ForAll i In doc.Items
         Call rtitem.Appendtext("" & i.name & ": ")   
         If Not i.type = 25 Then
            txt = i.text      
            Call rtitem.appendtext(txt)
            Call rtitem.Addnewline(1,True)                                                               
         End If   
      End ForAll
   End If
alldone:
   Exit Function
errorhandle:
   nct_outputError("Error in function '" & GetThreadInfo(1) & "' at " & Erl & " :" & Error$)
   Resume alldone
End Function


Sub nct_outputError( txt As String)
   ' ********************************************************
   On Error GoTo errorhandle
   ' ********************************************************
   If NCT_DEBUG_OUTPUT_AS_MSGBOX Then
      MsgBox(txt)
   Else
      Print(txt)
   End if
   
   ' ********************************************************
alldone:
   Exit Sub
errorhandle:
   Msgbox("Error in sub '" & Getthreadinfo(1) & "' at " & Erl & " :" & Error$)
   Resume alldone
   ' ********************************************************
End sub


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