[Scspamcop] Re: email reporting with new Apple Mail not working

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Elden Fenison wrote:
> * Wazoo  [Sun, 4 Nov 2007 18:03:11 -0800]:
>> Start with doing some of the troubleshooting steps in the second 
>> item.  The most obvious issue would be the 'construct' of that 
>> Forwarded e-mail, and until you get and provide a copy of that, no 
>> one 'here' can jump in. 
> 
> Thank you Wazoo. I tried a couple of things. I added my Yahoo mail account as 
> a CC on the report to SpamCop. The CC never arrived. I am using an Apple .Mac 
> account for sending email. They appear to be blocking my submissions with an 
> outbound filter.
> 
> I did take the raw source from a spam and paste it into the SpamCop web form. 
> And I was able to report it without a problem. 
> 
> For my next test I think I will try a different SMTP server to send through. 
> That may be the only problem.

It's very likely you have correctly identified the problem. Outgoing 
filtering is a catchall to the spam problem, and easier than hunting 
down the zombies that are the source of the spam.

I had this very problem with my ISP (videotron.ca) filtering my spam 
reports to SpamCop. When I complained, they asked me to send a DSN (or 
similar error message) proving it was they who were causing the problem. 
Yet another case of customer support being brain dead and not thinking 
(or more likely not paid enough to do so) about the problem.

I report hundreds of spams/day (between 300 and 800 these days) using 
quick reports via Gmail's SMTP server without hassle. Gmail accounts are 
free and they do a good job of filtering the spam.

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