Re: AOL Bouncing Our Mail

SpamCop Admin wrote:
> AOL users are starting to report that our responses to their email
> spam submissions are bouncing.

That sounds funny -- that the would-be recipient would be reporting the
'bounce' to the sender.  You would think the would-be recipient would be
reporting that they weren't getting the response.  By your saying it
that way, I guess that means that the spamcop sender can't get the
'bounce' [bounce is such an ambiguous word] - that is the failed
delivery information?

If an AOLer submits a spam, then I would think the spamcop response to
that submission should contain headers that look in part like this:

Return-Path: <user.[munged]@bounces.spamcop.net>
Received: from vmx1.spamcop.net ([204.15.82.27]) by <my mailbox>
Received: from sc-app6.ironport.com (HELO spamcop.net) (204.15.82.25)
  by vmx1.spamcop.net with SMTP; 07 Sep 2005 02:56:35 -0700
From: SpamCop <[email protected]>

So, how does AOL bounce that spamcop mail?  To the Return-Path?  The
From?  Does it simply reject the transaction?  What?

If it rejected the transaction, you wouldn't need the report from the
non-recipient, you would know the item had been rejected.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin