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Today I received an e-mail to my gmail account, and reported it the same way I've been reporting all of my gmail spam:

View Original, Control+A (to select all), Control+C (to Copy contents of message), switch to spamcop reporting field, Control+V (to paste it in), hit the Enter key.

And I got the following error:

Finding links in message body

Ignored 93-bit part

error: couldn't parse head

Message body parser requires full, accurate copy of message

More information on this error..

no links found

But I've copied completely what was sent to me:

Delivered-To: me[at]gmail.com

Received: by 10.142.78.19 with SMTP id a19cs202936wfb;

Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:22:33 -0700 (PDT)

Received: by 10.90.29.18 with SMTP id c18mr5334961agc.1188912151797;

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:22:31 -0700 (PDT)

Return-Path: <ceciliawortzjef[at]horsefan.net>

Received: from 124.112.28.15 ([124.112.28.15])

by mx.google.com with SMTP id 38si5660129aga.2007.09.04.06.22.23;

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:22:31 -0700 (PDT)

Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 124.112.28.15 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of ceciliawortzjef[at]horsefan.net) client-ip=124.112.28.15;

Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 124.112.28.15 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of ceciliawortzjef[at]horsefan.net) smtp.mail=ceciliawortzjef[at]horsefan.net

Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:22:31 -0700 (PDT)

Message-Id: <46dd5c17.26015a0a.2578.1000SMTPIN_ADDED[at]mx.google.com>

Received: from nycny.net ([142.59.168.156])

Received: from 208.184.175.204[at]nycny.net ([185.122.214.30]) Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:25:27 +0600

Received: from nycny.net ([163.4.64.83]);

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:19:27 +0400

Lang_Translation: 46353 ver 1.381

adsl_Rerouteinfo: C.Hanchett-204_41E4_83B41DT6.12745456

To: marco42[at]gmail.com, cflasher[at]gmail.com, bjosic[at]gmail.com, eatorama[at]gmail.com, vcalva[at]gmail.com, lobbestuur[at]gmail.com, kporche[at]gmail.com, quismom[at]gmail.com, gtamaster[at]gmail.com, me[at]gmail.com, alicetangas[at]gmail.com

From: "real young to middle-aged women" <ceciliawortzjef[at]horsefan.net>

Reply-To: "real young to middle-aged women" |ceciliawortzjef[at]horsefan.net|

Subject: FWD:Neihoff

Content-Type: 93-bit

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 39-bit

MIME Version: 1.2.6?Guynn N. Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:24:27 +0400

Marco42

We promise it now: Without curative effect , will return the fund

hxxp://hpjkfv.topxbox2.com

Any ideas?

The tracking URL is http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z1418703399z4...5890e11bf49488z

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From: "Wazoo"

To: "SpamCop Deputies"

Subject: Parser / Header lines/data

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 12:26:35 -0500

http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8668

References Tracking URL; http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z1418703399z4...5890e11bf49488z

Ignoring header lines;

Lang_Translation: 46353 ver 1.381

adsl_Rerouteinfo: C.Hanchett-204_41E4_83B41DT6.12745456

as the parser didn't seem to choke on those

However, there would seem to be some interaction going on with the Content descriptions.

ignored but called out in parse:

Content-Type: 93-bit

Duplicate Content-Type: text/plain line possible used ...?????

However, nothing 'said' about the lines;

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 39-bit

MIME Version: 1.2.6?Guynn N. Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:24:27 +0400

Is this possibly where the 'ending' parser error message stems from?

Finding links in message body

Ignored 93-bit part

error: couldn't parse head

Message body parser requires full, accurate copy of message

'edited' copy of the spam seems to have parsed just fine at

http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z1418807282z8...7efceae4acf9ccz

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  • 3 weeks later...

If you are technically non-fluent the way I am, the 'analysis' is still confusing. However, a long time ago, before the Forum, someone, possibly Wazoo, explained to me that the headers contain two versions of the Content line:

Content-Type: 93-bit

Content-Type: text/plain

It is only supposed to have one. The parser requires a blank space between the headers and the body of the message so when it sees the first Content-type, it stops reading the headers and looks for a blank line. It sees the next Content line and thinks there is a problem so it sends you an error message that it can't find the message body.

If you delete one of the Content lines, the parser is happy and keeps going until it hits a blank space and then it looks for 'links' in the message body.

I don't really remember whether matching the Content-type to MIME is important. If it is, then which line you delete is important.

You are not supposed to change anything in the headers, but deleting one of the Content lines doesn't generate complaints because it does not affect where the spam came from. You can delete it without notice by the administration if you want to take the trouble to report the spam. At least, that's my understanding.

Miss Betsy

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  • 2 weeks later...

It might not have been your fault: sometimes something in a message trips this warning. I've received "Message body parser requires full, accurate copy of message" errors even when the message was held by SpamCop and therefore had to be a full and accurate copy. If I was a spammer, I'd find out exactly what trips this exception and make sure that ALL of my spam included it. <grin> But then, if it happened a lot, SpamCoup would have to remove it.

Nothing's perfect and I could live with the fact that SpamCop won't parse/report a message here and there but it bothers me that the explanation given if you click "More information on this error.." used to (may still; I haven't checked it lately) insist that the problem was human error even though in some cases it can't have been. The explanation is incomplete and frustrating to people who are trying to figure out what's happening.

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<snip> The explanation is incomplete and frustrating to people who are trying to figure out what's happening.

My experience has been that if you want to understand what is happening, you have to learn a lot about how email works. A lot of times, I have just decided that since I don't plan to apply for a server admin job any time soon, I will just let it go. Other times, I have irritated the heck of various posters by asking dumb question after dumb question until I understand. I can give you a pretty decent explanation of the difference between a 'misdirected bounce' and a rejection by the server. However, my explanation of why some IP addresses are 'internal' would generate a bunch of 'corrections!'

I can also tell you how to change a tire and how a piston engine works, but there are some things about cars that all I know is that it doesn't sound right. Had a pick up truck that made an awful noise if you went over 45 for several miles. It kept going however. Never did find out what caused it. Just didn't drive over 45. All depends on how serious you are about understanding email.

Miss Betsy

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