[Scmail] Re: New SpamCop User

[Mike Easter]

Mark Gelios wrote:
> Hello JT,

JT is highly unlikely to be coming in here.  Maybe Wazoo or some others
who actually use spamcop mail which I don't.

> I have just signed up for SpamCop.  I have sent myself (using a
> hotmail account) to emails.  One was just a test, and another was
> SPAM that I forwarded from my hotmail account.

I'm not a spamcop email user, so I have to guess at things.  But I read
pretty good.  (Sloppy/colloquial English for 'pretty well'.)

> Neither email showed up as having passed through SpamCop, so I am
> questioning whether or not I have set the application up properly.

I don't know what all of that sentence means.  Presumably you have
hotmail set to forward to spamcop and your OE to pop from spamcop's
server, so a test mail would 'have to' pass thru' spamcop in order for
you to get it, ISTM itseemstome.

You can also look at a mail's headers and tell the path it took by
examining the chain which is seen in the Received tracelines.

>  I
> have inputted my POP information into SpamCop as described in the
> instructions, and I have set up my Outlook Express POP to retrieve
> email from my SpamCop account.

... and we are talking about mail that was retrieved from spamcop, yes?
That is, you don't have the hotmail coming into OE any more, no/yes?

> Can you help me to understand if the program is functioning properly
> or not.

The headers of the mail should also have Xlines which indicate the
activity of the spamcop filters.  It is possible for a spam to pass
thru' the filters you have configured and not be held by the spamfilter.

Besides in here, another source of information about spamcop mail is the
forums, http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showforum=4  SpamCop
Email System & Accounts Subforums


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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin