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

[Tim Wayne]

On May 15, 2006, at 3:21 PM, Garen Erdoisa wrote:

>> 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.

Oh.  Well, actually, I thought there *might* be something private or  
unique (to my account) to that email.  When I wrote the post I  
changed two letters in the email address. The one above is  
representational only.  It's similar but not exactly the one I got  
from Spamcop.  ;-)


>
>>     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.

Thanks! I am going to have my server expert help me out with this  
part, and with what I got from Mike Easter earlier.

Thank you!

Cheers,

Tim Wayne