Re: Spam "from" reserved netblocks

N. Miller wrote:
> 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?

What's the point? SpamCop will not accept zipped spam reports.

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John Richards