Re: Spam "from" reserved netblocks

On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:11:34 -0700, Sean Sowell wrote:

> OK, take two.  I tried it this way as well and it does not work either.  I
> selected the twenty spamples that SpamAssassin did not catch in the past 48
> hours, right-clicked and chose the menu item 'Forward as Attachment', just
> as you instructed.  I did not add a subject or anything to the message body.
> I just sent it striaght off to SpamCop at 0916 Pacific time.  But I received
> a nearly identical rejection message almost immediately.  It is pasted in
> below, except that I removed all but the first spample from the end.
> ...
>>> 1.  Why don't my .eml attachments go through?
>>
>> I recommend to use your forward as attachment function as opposed to
>> saving an item as .eml and inserting it as an attachment.  If forwarding
>> as attachment isn't working correctly, there are some 'tricks' to
>> troubleshooting that here using forwarding to self and posting the
>> result into the newsgroup spamcop.spam.
> ...
> 
> No, it still doesn't work.  If you could check ahead to see what might be
> going wrong, I'd appreciate it.  The first sample is the failed submission
> to my personal reporting address.
<snip>
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
> 
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
> 
>   submit.[munge]@spam.spamcop.net
>     This message has been rejected because it has
>     a potentially executable attachment "Scoring houses - the easy way!.eml"
>     This form of attachment has been used by
>     recent viruses or other malware.
>     If you meant to send this file then please
>     package it up as a zip file and resend it.
<snip>

It says to zip it. Did you try zipping it?

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