Re: Hotmail spam

"N. Miller" <[email protected]> Tue, 16 May 2006 00:06:35 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamcop.user
Organization Sahara Specific Lumbar Co., Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 15 May 2006 08:49:01 -0700, anon wrote:

> "N. Miller" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
> news:[email protected]...

<snip>

>> You can't _POP_ MSN Hotmail. Period. You can use third party kludges to
>> _HTTP_ your Hotmail; for as long as the kludges work with MSN Hotmail.
>> They rely on HTTP tricks. The Post Office Protocol just won't work.

> BTW what do all these kludges DO to the headers of the mail received by 
> hotmail.
> 
> Remember that SC's parser has to find the 'source' of the spam - if you 
> sc***w up the headers you have lost the game.

They add nothing to the headers. Remember, they are acting like a web
browser, using HTTP GET commands, and whatever else is necessary to
authenticate to the account. They just pull data from the web server
holding the email, and pass it to the POP3 client. There is no SMTP
activity; the kludge is just a proxy which translates POP3 commands into
HTTP commands.

-- 
Norman
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