[SpamCop-List] Re: Getting mail bounced with attachment emails.
Berny
bar_n0ne at hotmail.com
Tue Aug 30 14:17:49 EDT 2005
"Geoffrey Hyde" <g.hyde at bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:df0nbp$9tv$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>
http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z801085111zbbe432678852838274f0892529f77138z&action=display
>
> This is spam email that looks like a mailserver bounce that I submitted
for
> processing - however, I'm not sure if SpamCop correctly identified the
true
> spammer which might have been in the attachment included with this email,
> which SpamCop didn't touch.
Correct, it doesn't
> Should I in these instances discard the outer bounce email and have
SpamCop
> parse the attached mail headers that it ignored?
No, Against the TOS of SC
>Or are these considered fakeable
Yes
>and should I just give spamcop the entire email I receive and let
> it decide what to consider spam?
Yes. Ypu may only report Spam to you, not other peoples spamn which is what
the enclosure is.
> For what it's worth, I did just copy the entire mail that was shown from
the
> Message Source window in Outlook Express, using Select All and
> copying/pasting that into SpamCop and then pressing the submit spam button
> from there.
>
> I just hope I'm getting the right spammer addresses and not some innocent
> bystander.
If you consider spam bouncers to be innocent bystanders, then yes, you
reported an "innocent"
If not, you reported a "Blowback" source (see the bottom of the SC submit
page, note to postmasters.
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