[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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