Gingko

I always report on Signal-spam along with Spamcop for a long time. But … Signal-spam is mostly a French centred organisation. Are you telling me that the arrogant natural tendency of French people (I have French nationality) to believe that France is the center of the world is actually justified, at least about spam-fighting? 😁😃😂

Which system? Which version? Seems to work on Linux, for example. Anyway, the number of configuration cases where it doesn't work seems to be largely higher than the working cases. You should ask yourself why. It is the Spamcop responsibility to ensure it works in ALL (reasonably expectable) cases. And it is NOT the responsibility of users to dig in the mud in order to find a working case for them.

It is just necessary to try to register on Spamcop from scratch. Tested on several browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari) on several computers and operating systems (Windows 10, Mac OS, Android). I have only found a few browsers on Linux (like Firefox 102.10.0esr on Linux Debian 11) so far that seem to escape this captcha problem. I am sure that users of such configurations will be delighted to learn that they are among the only ones who can still create a Spamcop account without using unexpected workarounds. And I have always been impressed by the astonishing ability of some people to place themselves in denial in the face of the most obvious things.

Which announcements ? Here ? Ok. Will see if it makes any changes to the captcha registering problem. This is now my main clue. But I have some doubts. “The last of our changes to our SpamCop mail servers” “This should not affect the SpamCop website.” You know what I mean?

Initially, I was only looking for arguments or resources that I could use to be able to tell OVH that they can't just be so casual as to ask me not to use Spamcop. But the discussion then evolved to question the problems with the management of mailhosts as well as the near impossibility for anyone to create a new Spamcop account due to the fact that the registration captcha had been designed to work with Internet Explorer, and that the disappearance of this navigator as well as the concomitant evolution of other navigators made the passage of this captcha become an obstacle course, requiring the use of the workaround mentioned above. At this point, communication with the Spamcop development team would have seemed clearly necessary. But the only existing resource that seems to exist for this seems to be this page, which only has 2 (possibly) email addresses related to this, and possibly (indirectly) a few other ways that aren't much better: My own experience of this type of communication, combined with the very long age of this page, as well as the almost anecdotal maintenance of the site for a very, very long time, leads me to think that it is not even worthwhile for me to try to settle the problems using these email addresses. I'll likely never get any answer … and even if I get one, I'll probably still have to fight against a huge will not to acknowledge the problems. I would have expected that at least some members of the development team follow this forum (or part of this forum), and be ready to intervene when it seems necessary. When developers don't WANT to communicate, they know very well how not to communicate.

The problem is that this would need that I'd spend 10 minutes on each spam by analysing all of them myself …

When Spamcop send a report, this report has a subject like the following : “[SpamCop (52.128.42.65) id:7271670813]SBA Saturdae” With the spammer's IP or advertising link (determined by Spamcop), the report id and the spam subjects all included in that subject. The same data (determined by Spamcop) is also included in the report's text. For all cases that I quoted in the beginning of this thread, I have the message sent by my hosting provider (OVH) informing me that “I am a spammer”, and containing a copy of the corresponding report. In none of these cases, any IP address or domain name belonging to me was quoted in the Spamcop's reports subjects. This implies that OVH has not taken any account of the information given by Spamcop, and that they analysed themselves the spam headers following their own understandings. And actually my server's IP was not visible in any of these spams either. There was only my server's domain name (kim8.reeves.fr), always in position “Received by”, that they must submit to a DNS server in order to get the IP. To me, this implies a huge lack of intellectual faculties.

Actually … Is there (still ??) somebody reading this forum who has effectively authority about the Spamcop maintenance or development, who has effectively access to its code, who has rights to change something to it, to its servers, programmatically? If not, where such people could be find?

As the bug concerns the registration of any Spamcop's new account, this doesn't give a good expectation for the future of Spamcop itself.

Of course, but : My mailhosts was correctly recognised as I can read “kim0.reeves.fr received mail from sending system 51.195.100.62” - kim0.reeves.fr was the name given to this mailhost, this is the name of my first generation server given maybe 10 years ago, Spamcop couldn't know it if the mailhost was not identified. 136.169.211.136 is not associated with any of my mailhosts, this is normal as 136.169.211.136 is the spammer, it doesn't have to be associated with any of my mailhosts. It doesn't look like a forgery either, if I type dig -x 136.169.211.136 in a Linux command line, I truly get 136.169.211.136.dynamic.ufanet.ru as the reverse DNS of that IP. 51.195.100.62 (reverse DNS mail.key-consulting.tech), just seems to be an intermediary relay (also hosted by OVH) not belonging to me. I suppose that this relay is either open, either related to the spammer in some manner. If I open mail.key-consulting.tech in a browser, I get a “Web Server's Default Page” suggesting a new hosting account never configured to do anything. And if you “do not use mailhosts setup”, what do you do instead ?

I never said that the problem was solved. It's just a workaround which can be used for a problem that lasts for at least 5 years, and that Spamcop didn't fix for at least 5 years. Nevertheless the very nature of this workaround gives a good indication about how Spamcop should fix it. The problem will be solved when Spamcop will have changed its registration page, allowing it to work with any browser, of course. But unfortunately, my experience is that if a bug is not fixed for 5 years, it means that nobody cares about this bug, thus it will never be fixed.

The initial subject was not about mailhosts. And even if the subject seems however to have indirectly raised certain problems related to mailhosts, these problems do not seem to have at any time indicated that I was the author of the spams which I reported. On some occasions spam analysis showed messages like “Possible forgery. Supposed receiving system not associated with any of your mailhosts Will not trust this Received line” (which I don't quite understand, since each time the mailhost, which is almost always my own mail server, was registered), but none of these analyzes produced a report indicating explicitly that the origin of the spam was me. It is the OVH company which seems to have decided that, in a totally uncorrelated manner with, in particular, the IP address indicated in the report's subject. Now I continue to submit mails to OVH. But each time I see OVH in the report to be sent, I add the following in the “Additional notes” field (actually in French, here translated):

Thank you for this answer. It effectively works, and I successfully created a (second) account that way. And believed it or not, even having reported this, there are people here, you report this problem, you tell them that you tried your solution and that it works, they still don't want to believe it, nor even to try it. (follow this link)

YES, I tried latest Microsoft Edge (in Internet Explorer mode, following the instructions found at the very end of this other topic [<- there is a link there] in this very same forum that you don't even want to read despite this is the THIRD time that I quote it for you in THIS thread), and I got past the CAPTCHA THIS WAY. “Everyone so-far except you have reported it works?” ?? NO, someone in this very same forum [<- there is a link there] already reported it in this very same forum in a topic that you don't even want to read, so I found the topic, then I read the topic, then I followed the instructions recently given at the very end of that topic, then IT WORKED. YES, I set-up another SpamCop account (THAT WAY) without mailhosts being set-up, to try to correct spam reports from going to wrong source of spam. “No one knows these answers except you?” ?? NO, someone in this very same forum [<- there is a link there] already reported it in this very same forum in a topic that you don't even want to read, so I found the topic, then I read the topic, then I followed the instructions recently given at the very end of that topic, then IT WORKED. I normally never use Microsoft Edge in common life. And last but not least, this is also an off topic subject. The initial subject was about OVH identifying the spams that I reported as originated by myself.

In fact, I'm completely lost here, regarding what you are now speaking about. Should I start a new topic repeating my initial question in order to revert to the initial subject?

And you still haven't tried.

Hello. I just realised that I have a problem with my mailhosts registering. Among multiple email addresses that I have, some of them are hosted by the SFR French ISP. Of course, I made mailhost registration for all of them. But this ISP has many mailhosts. Among all of them, there are the following already registered by SpamCop: msfrf2102.sfr.fr msfrf2103.sfr.fr msfrf2119.sfr.fr msfrf2121.sfr.fr msfrf2123.sfr.fr msfrf2201.sfr.fr msfrf2203.sfr.fr msfrf2204.sfr.fr msfrf2209.sfr.fr msfrf2211.sfr.fr msfrf2214.sfr.fr msfrf2224.sfr.fr msfrf2302.sfr.fr msfrf2304.sfr.fr msfrf2319.sfr.fr msfrf2401.sfr.fr msfrf2417.sfr.fr msfrf2503.sfr.fr msfrf2506.sfr.fr msfrf2602.sfr.fr msfrf2605.sfr.fr msfrf2606.sfr.fr msfrf2608.sfr.fr msfrf2609.sfr.fr msfrf2611.sfr.fr msfrf2614.sfr.fr msfrf2618.sfr.fr msfrf2619.sfr.fr msfrf2621.sfr.fr msfrf2622.sfr.fr msfrf2625.sfr.fr msfrf2626.sfr.fr msfrf2627.sfr.fr msfrf2628.sfr.fr msfrf2629.sfr.fr msfrf2631.sfr.fr msfrf2633.sfr.fr msfrf2634.sfr.fr msfrf2635.sfr.fr msfrf2636.sfr.fr msfrf2637.sfr.fr msfrf2639.sfr.fr msfrf2641.sfr.fr That is, 43 different mailhosts. With many holes in their numbering, suggesting that many of them are still missing. I just received a spam on one of these addresses telling there is a mailhost problem. The mailhost used was msfrf2612.sfr.fr. Not in the above list. If I try registering this mailhost again, the “[SpamCop] account configuration email” seems to travel randomly through only one of them. This means that I'd have to try to register this ISP maybe 50 times (or more) before having only a 50% probability to add msfrf2612.sfr.fr to this list.

This is not “supposedly concluded”. This is verified. Not only by myself. By other members also. See here: forum.spamcop.net/topic/29780-captcha-problem-on-registering/ And anyway, if you don't believe it, you just have to try. As I said before : It works only in Microsoft Edge, only if I select the Internet Explorer mode. If you remember well about 10 or 20 years ago, Internet Explorer was very well known to have its very own conception of HTML standards. Now Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox do not have an Internet Explorer mode.

I doubt this may have any effect on the captcha registering problem, as you certainly have to be already registered before using a credit card.

No, I am not running any business. I just host some non profit organisations, or hobby web sites for myself and a few geeks. And actually, Yahoo and Hotmail are very secondary old emails that I rarely use, and GMail relates to my family by conservatorship for one, and temporarily inherited management for another.

Ok. How can I access the “latest system available” on which I'd have no problems with registration? How can I have access to all items quoted in red, as I suppose that they are not available in the free service? I want to continue using all emails hosted on my server, is there a paid service for that?

This problem seems to last for at least 5 years. Following this thread: … I finally successfully registered a new account following this protocol: Using the Microsoft Edge browser. Switch it to Internet Explorer mode. To me, it looks like this is the result of general improvements in the HTML/CSS standards implemented in recent browsers, which were not followed by updates in the SpamCop server's HTML coding.

Actually, it is not possible right now to open another SpamCop account. Opening one require to satisfy a captcha, and the captcha is not working.

I just said my servers HAVE IPv6 now. And my home connection too. Want do you want I upgrade?

Another point : This mailhost do not register IPv6, despite my server has it and (sometimes) use it. I don't know how to force IPv6 in mailhost registering. Only my GMail, Yahoo and Hotmail mailhost have registered IPv6 with IPv4.