Why do I get hits when I run my email through the spamcop blacklist when Smartermail is already supposed to be using spamcop. Can flag spam by country of origin in Smartermail?

Tks

It's because SpamCop thinks you are a source of Spam. Check the reports in SmarterMail to see if there are an unusual number of emails coming from your server.

Here's more information on how SpamCop works for admins, http://spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/75.html

No, I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear. I have another program that will check emails I receive against various blacklist and it is finding some of the senders addresses in the Spamcop database. This doesn't make sense since I thought Smartermail was already checking Spamcop and that is my question, why?

Tks

Do you have the spam settings configured to reject the message if it shows up on the list? By default, there are three spam lists checked and each assigns a weight of 10 to a message. So if it is only on SpamCop but not the others it will get a spam weight of only 10, which usually is allowed through.

If you haven't done this in the past, you can find more info here:

http://www.hostmysite.com/support/smartermail4/domainfilter/

Hope this helps! If not please feel free to give us a ring.



Regards,
Dave Malone

Here are my settings, do these look OK?

Spam Check Weight
Bayesian Filtering 5
Reverse DNS 5
SPF Pass 0
SPF Fail 30
SPF Soft Fail 5
SPF Neutral 0
SPF Invalid Record 20
SPF None 0
Spam List: ORDB 30
Spam List: SpamCop 30
Spam List: SpamHaus SBL+XBL 30

Low Probability of Being Spam
Weight 10
Action Add text to subject line
Text SPAM LOW

Medium Probability of Being Spam
Weight 20
Action Add text to subject line
Text SPAM MEDIUM

High Probability of Being Spam
Weight 30
Action Move to Junk Email Folder

Yeah the settings all look good. If the emails that get through are not on a whitelist in your admin, then I am not sure what would be going on.

If the scanner you have that checks SpamCop is run after the fact, it is possible that a site was listed after the message got to the server. Doesn't seem like that would happen a lot though.

Also, to get back to the original question, there is no way to identify the country of origin in the spam filters.

If things keep acting up get the headers together for a few messages that get through but then show up on the list, and contact support with that info as well as when you downloaded the messages and when you ran your local SpamCop check. They will be able to dig into things in more depth.

-Dave