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[SpamCop-List] Report history for an IP?

Joe Grover grover.joe at acd.net
Wed Feb 2 09:42:00 EST 2005


Two of my three SMTP servers were recently listed at Spamcop.  I'm trying to
find out why.

In the past you could see samples of reports that resulted in a block when
you looked up an IP in the BL.  I'm unable to find this anymore.

I occasionally have customers that use spamcop Outlook plugins that--when
they report spam--it reports our SMTP server as one of the servers that sent
the spam.  It is because of this:

Mail comes into one of three SMTP servers, and is delivered to a back-end
mailbox server, like this:

external server/client sending spame => smtp.acd.net => customer's mailbox
server.

Every now and then I get a Spamcop complaint implicating one of our SMTP
servers, only to look at it and see that it was a message one of our
customers received and reported, not a report from some user on the
internet.

I doubt this was the problem this morning, as I've only seen 2 of these
complaints over the past several months.  None of the other Spamcop
complaints I've received have had anything to do with any of our SMTP
servers, so naturally I'm curious as to what "abuse" resulted in two servers
being listed this morning.

Thanks in advance.


Joe




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