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SpamCop FAQ : (Category) Help for abuse-desks and administrators : Im receiving spam reports, but my mail server logs don reflect it. Why?

April 26, 2017abuse-desks administrators category help reports spam SpamCop

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SpamCop FAQ : (Category) Help for abuse-desks and administrators : Im receiving spam reports, but my mail server logs don reflect it. Why?

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Perhaps the headers of the spam look something like this: From wdwarren Sat Mar 04 07:07:05 2000 Received: from [10.1.1.1] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBA8A709500C6D820F3D8D8475492505611; Sat Mar 04 07:06:28 2000 Message-ID: <539045@ 169770> From: wdwarren Subject: UNIVERSITY DIPLOMAS (Verifiable) Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 09:45:21 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/HTML; charset=”US-ASCII” Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Where [10.1.1.1] is your server. Note that there are no “received” lines added by your server – or if there are additional received lines, they may look forged or otherwise inconsistant with lines added normally by your mailserver. This situation is quite common. You may have a user running a dedicated spam sending program (ratware) to send directly from your server. These programs do not use any mailserver facilities on your server – specifically to avoid detection. They are usually named something innocuous like “mailform.