If the recipient of such a message has an issue with it, they should
include the message with full headers as part of their report. If they
cannot or will not do that, then they are SOL.
Most large ISP's that accept spam reports at an abuse@ address,
specifically indicate that if you don't include the full headers with
your report then they will be able to do nothing about it.
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Hubbard, Matt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like some feedback about the idea of being able to retain the header
> files of messages for a period of time (about a week), essentially for the
> purposes of auditing.
>
> I'm frequently asked if I can provide information about messages that have
> gone through our system in cases of reported abuse, and the answer is
> typically: "Yes if I had the headers, but I don't".
>
> I don't think that increasing log verbosity or preserving msglogs would
> provide the desired information.
>
> Does anyone think this is a particularly bad idea?
>
> Does anyone have any bright ideas on how to achieve this?
> I'm thinking along the lines of hardlinking the header files into a
> different directory (dir name based upon date).
>
> Cheers,
> Matt.
>
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