How to report to SpamCop soley by email?

[DaveF]

Greetings,

I'm brand new to SpamCop, and this was the only source of "help" I could find from the SC website.

Is there any way to report spam to SpamCop soley by email, without receiving the notification reports and without having to additionally confirm and subimit the reports at the SpamCop website?

I receive over 2000 spam per day. Using MailWasher Pro 4.1 allows me to deal with it reasonably well. Mailwasher has a SpamCop reporting function which I just decided to try out. I signed up, configured MW to report spam to SC and everything seemed good.

Then I discovered that I am sent an email for every single spam I report. And the spam isn't actually reported until I go to the webiste and submit a report for each individual email.

Since I would be reporting tens, perhaps hundreds, of spam a day this is just not tenable. It turns my spam reporting efforts into a new source of unwanted email. And it would require hours for me to individually submit all the reports from the website.

Surely there's a better way? If not, then unfortunately SpamCop is of no use to me and I won't be able to contribute to the good fight.

Thanks.

Dave F

[Jeff G.]

Please see FAQ Entry: What is Quick Reporting?.

[DaveF]

Email-based Quick Reporting is a feature of the SpamCop Parsing and Reporting System which may be allowed on a case-by-case basis by Deputies or Admins.

So, I guess there's no way to do what I want?

How do people deal with reporting spam? It seems a large burden to report every email. Get a response email for each one. Then go and individually report each one again. Do people with real spam problems participate in SpamCop? If so, how do they manage this inefficient and tiresome process?

Also, To help me find answers more easily, where is that FAQ you linked to? The link gave no indication of its location in the forums. the forum FAQ didn't seem to have that entry. It's not on the SC website. I'm lost trying to find help information regarding SC.

[petzl]

I receive over 2000 spam per day. Using MailWasher Pro 4.1 allows me to deal with it reasonably well. Mailwasher has a SpamCop reporting function which I just decided to try out. I signed up, configured MW to report spam to SC and everything seemed good.

20964[/snapback]

Just sign up for a US$30 per annum SpamCop email account which will accurately separate the spam. Effectively allowing only legitimate email into your inbox. Your existing email addresses can all be forwarded (best option) to SpamCop or you can have SpamCop "POP" (up to 10) individual accounts which are then checked for spam and Viruses

If you wish to you can "Very easily Report (VER) at a click of mouse, all spam that has been sorted to your held folder.

MW as a program is nowhere as effective as a REAL SpamCop email address!

The only email address you will ever need

[Derek T]

Greetings,

Is there any way to report spam to SpamCop soley by email, without receiving the notification reports and without having to additionally confirm and subimit the reports at  the SpamCop website?

I receive over 2000 spam per day.

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Greetings and welcome,

YOU are responsible for making sure the reports are going to the right people. Spamcop is just a tool to help YOU to identify the correct recipient. Sometimes it gets it wrong (especially if you haven't set your mailhosts) - you could well report your own ISP by accident. That's why you have to report each one. Until you're sure that mailhosts is OK and you're not getting bad parses VER (referred to above) is DANGEROUS! That's why newcomers aren't allowed to do it.

HOWEVER nobody said you have to report every spam you receive! Just report the newest, or the most offensive, or whatever you have time for. Every little helps! By reporting very fresh spam you can contribute to blocking a spew mid-stream.

[Jeff G.]

where is that FAQ you linked to?  The link gave no indication of its location in the forums. the forum FAQ didn't seem to have that entry. It's not on the SC website. I'm lost trying to find help information regarding SC.

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It is a FAQ Entry. I wrote it, hoping that it would be included in the (currently non-existent) all-encompassing SpamCop FAQ. Wazoo included a reference to it in "Original SpamCop FAQ & Added Forum Items" as "What is Quick Reporting?". To get there, please use the following steps:

• Shift-click here to navigate to the SpamCop Help Forum home page
  
• Click the link labeled "Pinned: Original SpamCop FAQ Plus - Read before Posting."
  
• On the displayed page, click the link labeled "http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2238."
  
• On the next displayed page, search down the text until you see a reference to "What is Quick Reporting?".
  

...HTH!

[DaveF]

Thanks for the replies. I better understand the purpose of SpamCop now.

Jeff G. thanks for the overview of the FAQ entry. That should help -- I've found SpamCop help to be difficult to navigate.

Currently MailWasher and three basic filters correctly identify about 98% of my email, so I'm not yet in need of more sophisticated filtering. But if that changes, I'll consider SpamCop's service.

I was hoping to use SpamCop to report my spam in the hopes that this would be useful "community" service. I didn't really expect it to reduce my spam level. But had implicitly assumed that SpamCop reporting was a fully automated process. I don't have time right now to do it manually.

That said, it is worthwhile reporting just one or two spam emails per day?

[turetzsr]

Hi, Dave!

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That said, it is worthwhile reporting just one or two spam emails per day?

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IMHO, one is much, much better than none. Two is much, much better than one. Ad infinitum. <g>

[Wazoo]

Jeff G. thanks for the overview of the FAQ entry. That should help -- I've found SpamCop help to be difficult to navigate.

Glad you found the thing "here" useful. It was something I did with the thoughts that it would only be a temporary thing, then (and still) waiting for JT to do something with data found at http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1672 .... On the other hand, others have complained about the mass of this single-point form of this version . and others have looked for items referenced "here" in the FAQ on the www.spamcop.net pages and ended up very frustrated, not quite following the Topic Title used here ...

I was hoping to use SpamCop to report my spam in the hopes that this would be useful "community" service. I didn't really expect it to reduce my spam level.

It is a community effort, but your expectations are a refreshing take ... so many folks seem to run in with the belief that their lone complaint on "their" spam will kill it all for them.

But had implicitly assumed that SpamCop reporting was a fully automated process. I don't have time right now to do it manually.

That said, it is worthwhile reporting just one or two spam emails per day?

Many other discussions here have included the thoughts that you specialize a bit and pick a certain sub-set of spam to report, reporting other spam as time permits. Some go with the most recent 10, focus on the porn or drugs, etc. ... and delete the rest. Though some reports will go to an abuse desk and actually get something accomplished, these days, things aren't really that simple, so the best spin on things now is to feed the SpamCopDNSBL in hopes of shutting off the spew from those bad sources. Any and all (proper) reporting helps, my specific example was watching one IP go from "4 hours to de-list" to "23 hours to de-list" after my submittal.

Those that have gone that extra mile and tried to "automate" things via scripts/programs usually found themselves in trouble. The parsing is as close to automatic as you're going to get, as it boils down to that it's just a tool and therefore needs supervision. The actual complains and reports are your responsibility, so it's you that makes the decision as to whether the tool is working correctly. It's also on that basis that bad reporting has consequences.

[DaveF]

OK, so I understand the purpose and working of SpamCop much better now. I've since submitted a few spams while checking my email tonight. I've also found two new ways to to hopefully reduce my level of received spam and am investigating a third method.

I hope to see my spam level plummet and have much less to report to SpamCop starting tomorrow (fingers crossed)

[turetzsr]

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I hope to see my spam level plummet and have much less to report to SpamCop starting tomorrow (fingers crossed)

21009[/snapback]

...You're almost certain to be disappointed -- it doesn't quite work that way -- we all wish it did! <frown>

[DaveF]

...You're almost certain to be disappointed -- it doesn't quite work that way -- we all wish it did!  <frown>

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Actually, it worked. I eliminated 99% of my spam

My domain server had a "catch-all" alias that fowarded all emails to my domain to my main email alias. I turned that off. I was receiving nearly 2000 spam per day due to dictionary spam launches at my domain. I've also stopped checking email from my ISP email address, as I don't use it. Another few out of my inbox. That leaves me with a sane level of spam, maybe 40 / day, coming to my primary email address.

That, I can report to SpamCop (whew).