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

[Mike Easter]

Tim Wayne wrote:

> It says on http://www.spamcop.net/ on the Report Spam page:
>
> Forward your spam to: submit.nj1jTDtvl4UXoCDG at spam.spamcop.net or:
> Paste entire spam (headers, blank line, body) - or - single address
> (one line only):
> [  Form Field  ]
>
> What have I confused?

You have confused configuring a server to forward with the very
different process of using a mailuser agent to receive spam mail and
then to forward that/those spam *AS AN ATTACHMENT* [to a mail sent from
a mailuser agent] to the submit address.

That 'Forward your spam' and secret submit address you pasted above is
only seen by someone who has logged in and is authorized to submit spam
to the webparser or to the submit address.  That authorized 'person' is
assumed to be a person using a mailuser agent and following the
guidelines provided for that.  Not a person configuring a server
wrongly.

That authorized someone is required to have read the rules and
guidelines prior to signing up, which are found on this page
http://www.spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml  Reporting Spam -- Getting
Started  -- What do I need to know to start reporting spam? -- How do I
get my email program to reveal the full headers?  -- How should I select
the recipients for my spam report?  -- Learn more about how SpamCop
reporting service works

Thus, I would assume that the authorized and logged in person is
intending to submit a spam which spam has been accessed for submitting
to the webparser or to the submit address with a browser into the
webparser or with a mailuser agent to the submit address.  The various
mailuser agents methods of submitting by email are described in detail
in the section http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/19.html  How do I
get my email program to reveal the full, unmodified email?

Those instructions are principally structured around submitting spam to
the webparser -- which at this stage of your confusion I would highly
recommend that you perform so that you will have the experience of
having successfully submitted a spam and seeing the result of a
successful parse, or else your confusion is liable to become more
muddled before it becomes clearer.

There are no instructions in the faq for using a server to forward its
received spam to the submit address -- that isn't done.

The word Forward in the context you read it there means "Use your
mailuser agent in the manner described for the appropriate mailuser
agent to Forward as Attachment, not Forward, to the submit address."
The word Forward there does *not* mean, "Use your server's forward
function to forward its received spam to the submit address."

Some mailuser agents can forward as attachment to the submit address and
some cannot.  I see no instructions for AppleMail, so I don't know one
way or the other about it.

>> 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?

Anyone who wants can use your submit address to submit fraudulent forged
spams to cause someone some trouble.  The blame for all the trouble that
it causes and the banishment of the spamforging reporter would be on you
because it is your personal submit address attached to your identity,
not that of the forger.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin