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

[Lou]

Bar0 wrote, On 4/6/2009 11:52 AM:
> 
> "Ellen" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message 
> news:49D9F05B.3060502 at spamcop.net...
>> 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.
> 
> How strange, I've never seen any received headers in a forwarded 
> WetlLook attachment, whether I forwarded as attachment or pasted the 
> spamitem into a new mail from the folders list.,  So I'm surprised that 
> received lines are reordered, since they've never been served up for me.
> 
> Outlook Express , on the other hand, seems to work fine.
Of course without a line-by-line comparison of the original and the 
parsed header how would you know if there was a problem.