[SC-Help] Re: Opera won't play with Spamcop, hashes headers

[Mike Easter]

Lane Gray, Czar Castic wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:

> I'd looked around the spamcop's "More information on this
> error"

That 'more information' link is very important about describing exactly
the problem the tracker below shows.

http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/368.html  Problems with spam not
in original format

That page displays 'mangling' of headers.  A header has to have a
fieldname colon space field value.  The fieldname has to be continuous
without spaces.  If the field value can reside on a single line that's
fine.  If the field value must be 'folded' onto multiple lines, it has
to be folded with leading whitespace on every folded line.  It is common
for some Received tracelines to get folded.  If they are improperly
folded, that is no good.

> Here's the one from the one I sent (the tracker I'd meant to send in
> the earlier post)
>
www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z786645139z212429dde5c066b746f581f8d9bf76e1z

That tracker shows badly folded lines - SC calls them mangled.  The
Received tracelines are mangled and the Content-Type line is mangled.

> Oh, thanks for pointing out the linewrap thing, that held the key.
> The last couple
> I've sent have worked fine, once I told Opera to kill linewrapping in
> outgoing mail.

So, how are you submitting these?  You aren't using 'C' to copy the raw
source with contiguous headers and pasting it into the webparser?  But
instead you are hitting C and doing what with the raw message source
spam in the clipboard?

> I just need to either kill it for my regular newsgrouping or hit
> "return" on
> my own from time to time.

It is 'normal' for news messages to be wrapped by the newsagent, not the
editing human.  But when you paste a spam anywhere, wrongly here and not
so wrongly in spamcop.spam, the newsagent introduces linewraps into it
which have to be removed before putting it into the parser.  That is one
of many reasons I would rather work with trackers than newsgroup posted
spam.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin