[SpamCop-List] Re: RE:reportid 1330833126

[Adam]

Fair enough, thanks for your help.

-Adam

"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message
news:crvo50$a6j$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> <restructured to make a conversation>
>
> Adam wrote:
> > "Mike Easter"
> >> Here's a little problem right now:
> >>
> >> 209.58.232.26  rDNS  smtp-out.load.com
> >>
> >> but the 'by' in your line sez webmail.rock.com;  rock's MX is
> >> 209.58.237.12
>
> > So if I make sure we make it
> >
> > ([TheUsersRealReverseAddress] [[TheUsersRealIPAddress]])
> > by smtp-out.load.com (loadmail) with HTTP id 2CBEDD68021
> >
> > the chain will be complete and there will not be a problem recursing
> > back ?
>
> I can't say for sure.  I know how to parse it either way as a human.  As
> human, I can make all kinds of adjustments for the content of the lines'
> 'from' and 'by' fields..
>
> The only way I can test SpamCop's parsing of it would be to feed the
> parser a header.  In order to feed the parser such a header, I would
> have to construct a bogus one, and I don't feel like doing that.
>
> I was just guessing at what could possibly be a problem because I have
> seen many such problems with the parser tripping and breaking a chain
> prematurely in the past.  The algorithm is very smart, but it /is/ just
> a dumb algorithm.
>
>
> -- 
> Mike Easter
> kibitzer, not SC admin
>