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[SC-Help] ******* Outlook users please read ********

Ellen nobody at spamcop.net
Mon Apr 6 13:45:01 EDT 2009


As a result of a fairly lengthy and intense investigation of Outlook 
2003 and 2007: Outlook does *not* include full and accurate headers when 
you forward spams as attachments. It reorders the Received headers, 
which makes them untrustworthy, as well as deleting/not forwarding other 
headers including X-headers, which is of less importance but which may 
loose some valuable information needed by ISPs/hosting companies.

The result of the 'scrambled" or reordered Received headers means that 
SpamCop does not reliably know where the injection point of the spam is.

Outlook is reordering the headers, not SpamCop.

Thusly, if you are running Outlook you *may not* forward your spams as 
an attachment for processing. You can copy/paste or look into running 
mailwasher or some other 3rd party add-in/add-on but you must stop 
forwarding as an attachment.

I want to thank the SC users who cheerfully gave of their time to help 
in tracking this down.



Ellen
SpamCop


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