[SC-Help] Re: Question on mail forwarding , 1 of 2

[Garen Erdoisa]

Tim Wayne wrote:
> 
> On May 15, 2006, at 2:54 PM, WazoO wrote:
> 
>>> To take advantage of my new spamcop account, I thought it would be
>>> interesting to set up the forwarding on my server to re-route emails
>>> sent to these dead aliases to my spamcop email address instead of
>>> into the server's bit bucket.  So, I told the server to forward said
>>> email to submit.nj1jTDtvl4UXoCDG at spam.spamcop.net, my spamcop
>>> reporting address.  But instead of the reports getting taken by
>>> spamcop, I keep getting failure notices, like in the example in part
>>> two of this message.
>>
>> You have confused your "SpamCop.net e-mail address" and your
>> SpamCop.net Reporting address ....
> 
> It says on http://www.spamcop.net/ on the Report Spam page:
> 
>     Forward your spam to: submit.nj1jTDtvl4UXoCDG at spam.spamcop.net or:

This reporting address should be kept between you and SpamCop. Revealing 
it on an forum that is open to the public is asking for it to be abused.
I suggest that you contact deputies <at> spamcop <dot> net to get a new 
reporting address.

>     Paste entire spam (headers, blank line, body) - or - single address 
> (one line only):
>     [  Form Field  ]
> 
> What have I confused?

You need to forward the spam as an RFC822 attachment.

If you Google for "automatic spamcop reporting" it returns a few 
thousand hits.  There are a lot of options out there.

There are plug ins that can enable various spam filters to do this if 
they don't have it built in. Some spam filters have this functionality 
built in.

I'm rather partial to SpamBouncer but would not recommend it for novices 
because it requires some programing skill, some knowledge of how 
procmail works and it needs to be managed a bit more than some of the 
other filters out there.

> 
> 
> 
>> You really need to contact
>> Don/Deputies to get a new Reporting account .. this one is now
>> burned, open to abuse, etc. ....
> 
> Why do you think this?

See above. Your reporting address is unique to you. If you give it out, 
then anyone can potentially use it to report spam in your name.

> 
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Tim Wayne
> San Francisco
> 

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Garen