Submitting spam

[Chaboo]

When I get a spam email from Yahoo, I dont want to open it for fear of infection. What i do is right click on the email in the spam folder and select VIEW FULL HEADER, then I copy and paste it into SpamCop for submission.

But I get this error and dont know quite how to fix it

No body text provided, check format of submission. spam must have body text

Thanks

[lisati]

The submission form requires the complete email source, not just the header.

I rarely use webmail with Yahoo these days, so I'm a bit out of touch with safe ways of viewing the complete email source using their webmail. I don't blame you for being cautious about opening emails.

[Lking]

Chaboo,

Just to be clear are you looking at the spam "in" a Yahoo web mail page OR are you talking about a spam FROM: a yahoo source that you are receiving in some other email app like Outlook, Firebird, etc.?

[Chaboo]

Thanks for the replies. The spam I am looking at is coming into my Yahoo mail, not Outlook or Firebird

[lisati]

I prefer to use Thunderbird which allows me to access the full source of a message without viewing images and other potentially nasty stuff.

I've heard that in the past some Yahoo users have had to fork out $$$$ to use POP3/IMAP with Yahoo, and suspect that I've had "free" access because my ISP uses Yahoo to host its email.