Re: Spammer tricks successfully beat spamcop

Phil Scadden wrote:
>> You can remedy this kind of problem by configuring for mailhosts.
>> It is possible that at some future date SC may recognize the service
>> between omega and grfn6 of gns.cri.nz -- but at present it does not.
>
> What do you mean by "configuring for mailhosts"? I am not the
> sysadmin here but if it is a relatively change to the sendmail
> config, then I might be able to convince them to do it.

No -- I meant you configure SpamCop and yourself, your account into the
mailhost configuration for you.

If you are logged in at the webparser page at http://www.spamcop.net/
there's a 'mailhosts' tab.

The description of the function [which looks/sounds confusing] is here
http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/397.html How do I configure
Mailhosts for SpamCop?

The idea is that by so configuring, SpamCop recognizes the top part of
your headers as yours, however screwed up they may be.  That description
is an oversimplification, because there are some other algorithmic
differences, but the point is that it helps SC considerably to know
whose headers those are which are being processed.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin