Spam cop is a 3rd party \u201cspam reporting\u201d service operated by IronPort systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In order to understand Spam Cop, you need to understand how it actually works and why it\u2019s causing your email messages to get blocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the very heart of the Spam Cop system is a sophisticated \u201cparser\u201d which looks at your email headers. Email headers include a lot of the information about your emails that the ISPs use to determine how to classify your email messages. In other words, whether or not your emails are going to wind up in the inbox, spam folder, or lost somewhere in cyberspace!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People subscribe to the Spam Cop service and simply send objectionable emails as attachments to a unique address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
THEN, Spam Cop analyzes the message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, it looks to find out where the email is coming from. It finds the IP address and then does a \u201cwhois\u201d lookup. Once it identifies the IP address, it compares it to Spam Cop\u2019s existing database to find out if the contact is valid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once that step is done, the next thing that Spam Cop looks for are hyperlinks. It strips out the domain and looks it up at abuse.net. (Abuse.net is a registry of mostly voluntarily-supplied email contacts to report misuse for web domains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The person submitting the \u201ccomplaint,\u201d if you will, then goes through the review process. They review the subject of the message, along with some lines of the body text, in order to confirm the email is unwanted \u2013 and to reduce the chances of accidentally reporting the wrong message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If the user confirms that they do want to report this message as spam, they simply click a link and the report is sent to all the parties in the channel. In other words, this report goes to your hosting company (assuming you are using a self-hosted email solution), your email provider (if you\u2019re using a 3rd party email solution), and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How those recipients act on this report will be determined by their individual policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The biggest problem with Spam Cop reports is that the subscriber that reports the message as spam is never provided to you, so you can\u2019t remove them from your list in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Author: Heather Seitz<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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