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

[John Aldrich]

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:06:51 -0400, Ellen wrote:

> 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, might I *respectfully* suggest something on the front page of the 
SpamCop reporting sites (especially mailsc.spamcop.net) to that effect? I 
just stumbled into the newsgroups to ask a question. Here it is 2 weeks 
plus after you posted this and I've been forwarding email from Outlook for 
the past two weeks, not realizing it was verboten.

I won't forward out of Outlook any longer, but you might want to think 
about making sure that people are notified of this change on the front 
pages of the reporting sites....

Just a suggestion.