[Scspamcop] Re: General Spam Question

[N. Miller]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 15:42:28 -0000, antioch from SpamCop wrote:

> System Info
> WINXP SP2 with OE6.  BB Internet connection.
> 
> For the last three months I have been trying to get an explanation from my 
> IP/ISP regarding the below - all they can suggest is that I change my email 
> accounts/addresses.
> 
> I am receiving daily, into my Inbox between 50-100 emails marked as SPAM 
> i.e.
> 
> [SPAM] Purchase medications with..................................
> 
> 90% of these messages are to other email addresses with my provider.  The 
> others are to 2 of my 5 email addresses.
> 
> In addition, SPAM is being filtered each day and placed in my MailBox with 
> the provider.  They tell me they have no spam filtering service in place?
> I do not have any other antispam filtering on my computer - only that 
> provided by my IP/ISP, which they tell me does not exist.

<snip>

Email is always sent to the correct email address, using the SMTP "RCPT TO:"
command. This is email address is not required to be stamped in headers by
mail servers, though some MDAs will do so (as a courtesy?) What you see in
the "To:" header is just a part of the SMTP "DATA", and can be anything the
sender wants it to be; or nothing at all. Common mail clients, such as MS
Outlook Express, call this entry "Bcc:". I don't know if such even exists in
spamware. Spamming clients are written by spammers, for spammers.

MS Outlook Express never had a native spam filter. The only way for a
Subject: line "SPAM" tag to appear in the Subject: line is for some mail
handler to add it before passing it to MS Outlook Express. Either something
on your computer, or something at your provider mail host. Otherwise, it was
sent with that tag. Based on your comments in other articles in this thread,
I would say it is your provider. Tech support doesn't always get it right
WRT what their service does.

-- 
Norman
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