As a result of a fairly lengthy and intense investigation of Outlook 2003 and 2007: Outlook does *not* include full and accurate headers when you forward spams as attachments. It reorders the Received headers, which makes them untrustworthy, as well as deleting/not forwarding other headers including X-headers, which is of less importance but which may loose some valuable information needed by ISPs/hosting companies.
The result of the 'scrambled" or reordered Received headers means that SpamCop does not reliably know where the injection point of the spam is.
Outlook is reordering the headers, not SpamCop.
Thusly, if you are running Outlook you *may not* forward your spams as an attachment for processing. You can copy/paste or look into running mailwasher or some other 3rd party add-in/add-on but you must stop forwarding as an attachment.
I want to thank the SC users who cheerfully gave of their time ito help in tracking this down.
Ellen
SpamCop
wazoo/mods -- if you would propagate this info to the wiki or other areas as necessary it would be appreciated.
Dear Ellen and Wazoo: I was directed to this topic by a respondent to a topic I started about Outlook 2010 (Always says "Nothing to do"). So 2010 must be doing the same thing. If I can help you by sending you stuff from my 2010 I'll do it. Meanwhile what I can tell you is that forwarding as an attachment fails MOST of the time, but from Comcast's Email web site it works -- MOST of the time.
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Dear Ellen and Wazoo: I was directed to this topic by a respondent to a topic I started about Outlook 2010 (Always says "Nothing to do"). So 2010 must be doing the same thing. If I can help you by sending you stuff from my 2010 I'll do it. Meanwhile what I can tell you is that forwarding as an attachment fails MOST of the time, but from Comcast's Email web site it works -- MOST of the time.