cliffski Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 I have no idea what this mailhosts thing is. if therees anyway i can use it to stop th 100 or so german language spams that I get daily for the last week, then please let me know what on earth it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Betsy Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 It has nothing to do with stopping a particular kind of spam. Mailhosts, IIUC, makes the spamcop parser more accurate in reporting any spam to the proper abuse desk which may, or may not, stop it. Miss Betsy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turetzsr Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 ...For more information on the German language spam, you may want to have a look at thread: Sudden huge burst of german spam getting through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellen Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 I have no idea what this mailhosts thing is. if therees anyway i can use it to stop th 100 or so german language spams that I get daily for the last week, then please let me know what on earth it is. mailhosts is designed to identify the path your mail takes thru the servers at your ISPs/hosting companies so that the system does not report them as the source of spam when they aren't the source and to help the parser to identify forged received headers more accurately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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