How to track the junk mail ?

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2 total messages Started by anne Fri, 29 Jun 2001 02:00

#711

Author: anne
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 02:00

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Hello, everyone :

   I've got the junk advertisement mail recently twice
sent from Hotmail.
  Does anyone know how to track the real mail source whose account is
xxx@hotmail.com ?
  Thanks for any help in advance !

                   --Anne

Re: How to track the junk mail ?

#712

Author: Barry Margolin
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:29

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In article <9hgnmp$271r$1@news1.sinica.edu.tw>,
anne <anne@ibms.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>Hello, everyone :
>
>   I've got the junk advertisement mail recently twice
>sent from Hotmail.
>  Does anyone know how to track the real mail source whose account is
>xxx@hotmail.com ?
>  Thanks for any help in advance !

Look in the Received headers to see where it really came from.  This will
get you to the ISP, and you can forward the message to their Abuse
department.

Spamcop.net has a tool that's very good at doing this automatically.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
Genuity, Burlington, MA
*** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.

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