DRAGON CITY

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Ruby Programming Language

Important note: The below programs cannot execute without a installed version of the Ruby language and the FXRuby/FOX GUI Library, they are freely available via the Ruby web site : www.ruby-lang.org

Note: This version of Spam-B-Gone has been developed and tested on Linux : Debian 3.0, RedHat 9.0 & Mandrake 9.2.
         A version for MS Windows is underdevelopment (currently having C code problems :-)

Spam-B-Gone

Since starting development work under Linux, I was missing the excellent Email processing program "Mail Washer" for MS Windows.
So I developed one for Linux using Ruby/FXRuby. Spam-B-Gone offers the user a table layout showing incoming email header information.
The user can simply select (click on) those emails that they wish to delete on the ISP computer. Unwanted mail never makes it onto your computer!

Start up form : Prior to clicking 'Check Mail'

                                        Spam-B-Gone

After Email headers loaded and user clicked in Delete? row, pressing 'Process Deletes' will delete those selected entries from the ISP server.

                                        Spam-B-Gone with email entries

As a security measure the complete Spam-B-Gone system is encrypted,  a special  program is used to load, decrypt and execute Spam-B-Gone from its encrypted state. The Ruby code files are encrypted, as is the small 'password' file you create & maintain using the SBG-configure program.
By having all files encrypted increases the security of your usage of Spam-B-Gone. The casual user cannot view your password details, nor access
the  Ruby program code to see how the encryption process was done. One extra  security feature is that every time you load & save your password file it is re-encrypted using randomly generated keys  You dont need to change any details for this to occur, it is recommended that you do this
a few times to ensure that a truly unique encrypted password file is generated.

Installation:

Download Spam-B-Gone : Spam-B-Gone  , a compressed Linux tar file (approx 100 Kbytes)

Place into a prefered directory and then unpack the tar by

                                             $tar -xzvf Spam-B-Gone.tar.gz

In the tar you will find a number of files: a C binaries (rubyrun & aes.so)  and  encrypted ( SBG-configure.rbx & Spam-B-Gone.rbx )
Ruby program files, which being encrypted, are  only executable by running via rubyrun, plus a  users guide  supplied in both
 TeX .dvi & .ps format.

 Note: there are no source code files available to ensure total security.

Execution :

eg :  $rubyrun Spam-B-Gone9.rbx

For your convenience it is suggested that you create a link to a program icon on your desktop. A suitable icon is included.

Contact me via email     dragoncity@aanet.com.au
With the Subject: "Spam-B-Gone Suggestions"
Brett S Hallett