From: SpamCop Admin
Newsgroups: spamcop
Subject: Re: Not receiving email at SpamCop?
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:40:48 -0600
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Pete Stephenson wrote:
>-Is there any way to still have SpamCop forward me mail in response to
>-spam reports that I file, but send me any other messages?
>-
>-In other words, send mail addressed to [reportID][at]reports.spamcop.net
>-back to my private address, but things sent directly to
>-xxxxxxx[at]spamcop.net should be bit-bucketed.
>-Is there any way to still have SpamCop forward me mail in response to
>-spam reports that I file, but send me any other messages?
>-
>-In other words, send mail addressed to [reportID][at]reports.spamcop.net
>-back to my private address, but things sent directly to
>-xxxxxxx[at]spamcop.net should be bit-bucketed.
Your SpamCop Email Filtering account is separated into two distinct
parts; the email service, and the reporting service.
You can log into your reporting account at http://mailsc.spamcop.net/
and change the contact address to anything you want so that our
*system* mail will go to that address instead of your @spamcop.net
email address. Mail from SpamCop, such as replies to your reports,
and our "SpamCop Quick reporting data" responses, will go to the
address you set. Mail from the staff, such as warnings about
reporting errors, will NOT usually go to that address unless we happen
to notice the setting and use that address instead of your
@spamcop.net address.
Your Email account can also be set to forward your mail to anywhere
you want, such as our bit bucket at nobody[at]devnull.spamcop.net so that
any mail that gets past the filters on your @spamcop.net address will
go to the trash.
Before abandoning the email service part of your account and using it
as just a reporting account, you might want to consider the
ramifications. For example, if you continue to use the SpamCop
filters, large amounts of mail will be diverted to your Held Mail
folder for reporting, which will accumulate if you don't report/delete
it, and will eventually overwhelm the system.
If you're not going to report the spam, you shouldn't use the filters.
It would be best to log into the account and disable all the blocking
lists and SpamAssassin filtering so that nothing will be diverted to
your Held Mail folder for reporting. That way, all mail to your
@spamcop.net address will be sent to the trash.
- Don D'Minion - SpamCop Admin -