From: mikea (mikea@mikea.ath.cx)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 21:13:00 EST
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:22:25PM -0500, A10382 wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> How about teaching the rest of us how to dig up this info from the user's
> email properties. It's easy to view the entire email including headers, but
> we all probably need some education in the tools used to get to the
> 'bottom'.
>
> I'm quite tired of those that have besieged me with SPAM, Porn, and
> generally annoying emails....
My day job is as antispam-and-antivirus guy for a large state govt.
agency. I know more than I want to about this.
The "whois" command is your friend. If you're running Windows and
don't have the "whois" command, then you ought to consider installing
the "Cygwin" package, which is freeware that gives you a lot of
native-Unix commands, including "whois".
Determine the machine that handed off the mail to your machine if
you run your own SMTP server, or to your ISP's mailserver otherwse.
Use "whois -h whois.arin.net <address>" to determine who really
owns the address of that machine, and address your mail to
"<owning-domain-name>@abuse.net".
Don't expect much action.
-- Mike Andrews mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin since 1964 _________________________________________________________________ PCR-1000 Mailing List Post Address: PCR-1000@mailman.qth.net Subscribe / Unsubscribe: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/pcr-1000 Mailman FAQ and Users Guide http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm
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