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[SC-Help] Re: Emailed reports not being processed?

Bert Hyman bert at iphouse.com
Fri Apr 24 00:13:48 EDT 2009


In news:gsqrgc$8k3$1 at news.spamcop.net "Steven Underwood"
<nobody at spamcop.net> wrote: 

> 
> "Bert Hyman" <bert at iphouse.com> wrote in message 
> news:Xns9BF68617B29CAVeebleFetzer at 216.154.195.61...
>> In news:gsqaes$j1d$1 at news.spamcop.net "Steven Underwood"
>> <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Bert Hyman" <bert at iphouse.com> wrote in message
>>> news:Xns9BF67AE1B95ABVeebleFetzer at 216.154.195.61...
>>>> I've forwarded 7 junk mails so far today, starting at about 7:15AM
>>>> CDT using my regular submit.xxxxx at spam.spamcop.net address, but
>>>> none have been processed.
>>>>
>>>> What's up?
>>
>>>
>>> Are you saying you you went to the reporting page and there is no
>>> "Report Now" link
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> (outgoing spam probably blocked by your ISP)
>>
>> I asked; they say they didn't, and that they don't.
>>
> 
> In the forums, we have had many instances where the first (sometimes 2
> or 3) contacts do not know that the back end made a change and when
> they got deep enough into support, they found that blocking of
> outgoing messages was going on.  

The place isn't that big; there's pretty much just one level. One of
the nice things about using a "boutiqe ISP." 

> Some of the blocking seen in those threads may have been based on the
> spamcop.net domain (we son;'t want spamcop reports against our server
> so we will block all messages going there) being sent to while other
> blocking has been based on the attached spam messages,  Try forwarding
> to spamcop and another service (yahoo, for instance) and see if the
> messages reach the alternative. 

What I found was that forwarding the messages individually worked, while
sending them all at once (as attachments, from Thunderbird) didn't. 

As I said, this has always worked before.

Well, I'll keep trying the old way first, and if it continues to fail,
at least I know a workaround. 

-- 
Bert Hyman	St. Paul, MN	bert at iphouse.com


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