Re: Spam question

2012-08-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.08.2012 19:08, schrieb Heinz Diehl: > On 27.08.2012, Tim wrote: > >> Yes, reporting spam to someone in control of sending spam, isn't going >> to work, you'll get even more of it. > [] > > I gave up reporting spam many years ago, and let crm114 sort out most > of it.. ab...@isp.tld

Re: Spam question

2012-08-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.08.2012 23:37, schrieb Heinz Diehl: > On 26.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> all other machines before can write what they like in mail headers > > You can claim to be who you want to while connecting to a mailserver yes > but you can't fake the IP from which you are connecting. not

Re: Spam question

2012-08-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.08.2012 22:47, schrieb Heinz Diehl: > On 26.08.2012, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> Is there someway from the mail header to deduce the origin of the >> messages? > > Yes, the "Received:" headers. Please post the _full_ header of one of > these mails. they do indicate NOTHING the only TRUST

Re: Spam question

2012-08-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/27/2012 01:22 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: whois 75.103.120.181 [Querying whois.arin.net] [Redirected to rwhois1.crystaltech.com:4321] [Querying rwhois1.crystaltech.com] [Unable to connect to remote host] [akonstam@cyrus ~]$ If you can't get the info you need directly, try an indirect route

Re: Spam question

2012-08-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.08.2012, Aaron Konstam wrote: > whois 75.103.120.181 > [Querying whois.arin.net] > [Redirected to rwhois1.crystaltech.com:4321] > [Querying rwhois1.crystaltech.com] > [Unable to connect to remote host] If all fails, try tracing it (tcptraceroute, in this case). These are the last four ho

Re: Spam question

2012-08-27 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 17:20 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 27.08.2012, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO pos81n-nds-36.positionstrends.com) > > (184.172.130.36) by mta1050.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 25 > > Aug 2012 15:51:30 + > > Somebody claiming to be "

Re: Spam question

2012-08-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.08.2012, Tim wrote: > Yes, reporting spam to someone in control of sending spam, isn't going > to work, you'll get even more of it. [] I gave up reporting spam many years ago, and let crm114 sort out most of it.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or c

Re: Spam question

2012-08-27 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 23:30 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Good luck in getting them to stop :-) :-) Yes, reporting spam to someone in control of sending spam, isn't going to work, you'll get even more of it. I'm not saying /that/ person is, I'll let someone else make a definitive accusation, bu

Re: Spam question

2012-08-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: > your MTA get a connection and have the IP of the last machine involved > in mail tzransmission, bit all other received headers before YOOR > machine are nOT trustable because i can write whatever i want > and how many received-headers i want and submit the me

Re: Spam question

2012-08-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/27/2012 11:20 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > So the spammer is in the netblock of "softlayer.com", most probably a > customer of them. Write a complaint to "ab...@fulltimedo.com" with a > copy to "sysadm...@softlayer.com", including one of the spam emails > incl. the full header. You may also want

Re: Spam question

2012-08-27 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.08.2012, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO pos81n-nds-36.positionstrends.com) > (184.172.130.36) by mta1050.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 25 > Aug 2012 15:51:30 + Somebody claiming to be "pos81n-nds-36.positionstrends.com" with the IP adress 184.172.130.36

Re: Spam question

2012-08-27 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 22:47 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 26.08.2012, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > Is there someway from the mail header to deduce the origin of the > > messages? > > Yes, the "Received:" headers. Please post the _full_ header of one of > these FULL HEADER X-apparently-to:

Re: Spam question

2012-08-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: > all other machines before can write what they like in mail headers You can claim to be who you want to while connecting to a mailserver, but you can't fake the IP from which you are connecting. It is logged by the mailserver while connecting between two squa

Re: Spam question

2012-08-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.08.2012, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Is there someway from the mail header to deduce the origin of the > messages? Yes, the "Received:" headers. Please post the _full_ header of one of these mails. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Spam question

2012-08-26 Thread Aaron Konstam
Suddenly last week I downloaded from a POP server 255 messages of which over 200 were spam. After a little study of the evolution setup it became clear that someone had captured my e-mail address and was filling my mail queue with spam. They advertised different services but the form of the messag