Re: Spam? label

From	Graham Jenkins <graham@gjenkins.me.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: Spam? label
Date	2012-09-14 17:55 +0100
Organization	None
Message-ID	<52cf2b7454graham@gjenkins.me.uk> (permalink)
References	(15 earlier) <gemini.mach0100bkmvh02tw.spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> <gemini.machdc00buw1p02tw.spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> <gemini.maciqu00cx3fo02tw.spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> <52cf26659agraham@gjenkins.me.uk> <gemini.macl5000erkro02tw.spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk>

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   Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> wrote:
> Graham Jenkins <graham@gjenkins.me.uk> wrote:

> > > So I'm afraid it's still for Neil to explain why the mail has
> > > such a high spam count.
> > 
> > This could be due to the fact that my gjenkins e-mail address was
> > hijacked by some spammer

> Possibly, but it's more usual to blacklist IP addresses rather than
> email addresses because as I think someone has already pointed out
> on this thread, anyone can fake an email address just by putting it
> onto their email and most of use have suffered this at some point
> in our internet lives. I thought blacklisters were intelligent
> enough to know this!

But it's still me that is getting the high spam count.

> > if I used my btinternet address and Outlook Express on my laptop
> > it didn't get the tag.

> ...which rather proves my point because presumably you're using the
> same email address on the laptop?

> This all suggests that the mail scanner is objecting to something
> specific in the headers which is being generated by Pluto.

> > Neil said I had to take it up with BT who forwarded my outgoing
> > e-mails because the tag was applied before it reached Purley

> I see no evidence of this in your headers. And if so, why has BT
> used X-PurleyHosting-Mailscanner headers to convey the information?

Good question. Neil?

> > The choices file in PopStar 2.05 includes what I assume is
> > authentication: it has 2 lines: SMTP: graham@gjenkins.me.uk and
> > SMTP: password. Those 2 lines are not the same as in Choices for
> > 2.06 which has SMTP.username:  and SMTP.password:  I don't know
> > how significant the difference is.

> The 2.06 lines look like generic data which should be substituted
> with your own login information.

Sorry - I was abbreviating: after SMTP.username:graham@gjenkins.me.uk
and after SMTP.password:mypassword  The 2.05 lines are just as I quote
but of course password is actually mypassword.

> The line in 2.05 that says "SMTP: password" - is that literally
> "password" or have you put that in yourself in place of your own
> password? In other words, is POPstar actually supplying password
> data to the server? 

It's in the Choices file so it is there if wanted. What it does with
it I don't know.

> NetFetch and Hermes were designed to avoid all this hassle.

> Alan

-- 
Graham N P Jenkins            graham@gjenkins.me.uk

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