Re: Eudora Help, Please
Re: Eudora Help, Please
- Subject: Re: Eudora Help, Please
- From: Marconi <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 01:12:37 -0700
At 6:12 PM -0600 7/12/03, Doug McNutt wrote:
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At 16:42 -0700 7/12/03, Marconi wrote:
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>By analyzing the IP addresses of the servers that send spam email to me, personally, I can learn the addresses I need to manually add to my mail server's blacklist. I've been doing it by hand. This is time consuming. I'd like to automate it.
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I did something like that a while ago and posted some results at
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<http://www.macnauchtan.com/spammer/index.html>
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The problem is that I did it in perl accessing the Eduora mailbox directly as a text file. If you're willing to use something other than AppleScript ask off line and I'll find the source code.
Someone else also reminded me that Eudora mailboxes are plain text and thus can be opened right in BBEdit. I'd forgotten. No need for AS to extract the IP addresses. I can just process the whole mailbox.
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Be aware that most IP addresses are faked and that includes the ones in Received From: headers.
I think "can be faked" is more like it. It is not trivial and I doubt that most spammers would bother. Either:
1) they're on a throw-away connection and anticipate having it shut down anyway; or
2) they're sending through someone else's open relay or proxy, so someone else gets the blame; or
3) they are commercial spammers with their own Big Pipes and aren't worried about getting found out.
I'd bet that 99.9+% of the time, the received: From headers in spam email are accurate.
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