[Scspamcop] Re: Here's something interesting I've noticed

[Mike Easter]

Chris F. Willoughby wrote:
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028

www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z1298731891zf7ac894268790e88c3cba645f4045f1cz
>
> Notice the problem is the lack of a space between the headers and the
> body.

I've seen that before.  That is a 'fatal error' in terms of parsing the
body.

> If you add that in it will parse correctly.  I've probably had
> hundreds of these type of messages that fail to process unless I
> manually adjust it. For the most part I don't bother as I don't catch
> them until after the 2 day deadline has passed.  Any chance spamcop's
> logic will change so this isn't a problem?

IMO there is absolutely no chance that the SC logic will change.  The
empty line between the header and the body is the dividing line between
the header and the body.  Including the requirements of how the field
names and the field values are constructed in the header, that empty
line between header and body is the 'sine qua non' of what a header is.

Those headers appear to have been received by a spamcop address/server,
then somehow you 'got your hands' on the spam.  Since we can be positive
that the header/body wasn't received or handled that way by the spamcop
cesmail server, then something has happened to them since/as you got the
item.

I'm assuming that your/some mailuser agent transacted with the
cesmail/spamcop server to get the mail.  What is your mailuser agent?
You are posting your news message with OE6 of the variety from XP SP2,
but OE6 has no such reputation of 'mangling' header/body relationships
and we know that SC has no such reputation, so there is some unknown
factor, and it must be the mua.

You could confirm that the SC server didn't receive any items like that
by looking at the same item in the webmailer;  and you could do that by
configuring your mailuser agent to temporarily leave its items on the
server so that you will have a chance to look at an item which you have
received and compare it to the same item on the server in the webmailer.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin