Re: Spamcop failing to detect true originating IP

"wskrispy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hiyas. I'm no antispam maven and don't have much ambition to become one,
> but I've been using the Spamcop website sporadically over the last few

However, doing some legwork may help resolve the issue.

> months to report a bunch of spams with originating IPs not already in
> the SC blocking list. About 5 days ago the SC site seems to have
> changed. Apparently the parser progs are treating my pasted spams
> differently.

I'm not aware of any change.  There's not a flood of folks making
the same claim.  So, the imnplication is that something changed on
your end.  Coincidemtally, a thread in the spamcop newsgroup
reads pretty close to the same story, but the result turns out to
that the user's ISP decided to implement some brain-dead
filtering on outgoing e-mail, such that the SpamCop submittals
were seen as virus infected due to the attached .eml file (the
forward as attachment of the spam) and the ISP's e-mail
habdler decided to put a big warning about the virus into the
outgoing e-mail, which of course screwed it up entirely as fas
as the SpamCop parser was concerned.

Test: CC: your next submittal to an off-site address such that
you can see what your ISP might be doing to your outgoing.
.
> I quickly set up Mailhosts just now but the problem remains. I guess
> I'll have to read more to see if my Mailhosts setup is correct, but like
> I said I don't plan to get too deep into this. I'm on vacation from
> heavyduty putering for at least a year.

I believe you'd have a whole different set of error messages if
your MailHost configuration was wrong ..