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

[jg]

On 04/06/2009 05:06 AM Ellen scribbled:

> 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

I'd call that timely, no offense to you Ellen...