Re: Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis

Hi Andy,

• Original message ----- On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:43:23 +0100 "Andy Cuff [talisker]" <offthecuff@lineone.net> wrote in message <001d01c39ae4$d5af6ad0$e800a8c0@BusterGonad>:

> Hi
> Whilst drowning my sorrows in the UK rain following our resounding

Like the Netherlands did great.... Must say I have to visit Iceland sometime... ;-)

> Whilst I'm quietly confident about manually analysing email headers,

You have mentioned Sam Spade for testing Open Mail Relay Agents, Sam Spade (the tool, not the site) also has an header analysis tool. It's somewhere in the menu, called "parse headers" or something like that (don't have a copy here atm).

The header parsing tool isn't perfect, last time I checked, but it works.

> Personally I would rather run a tool on my own system than put my

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Some mentioned SpamCop and I must say it works pretty good. You could also write your own tool in whatever language you'd like, many *nix commandline commands are at your disposal: host, vrfy, dig, etc.

Regards, Jan

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