Re: No more answers to submitted SPAM emails since 10:04
(MET) today

Konrad wrote:
Newsgroups: spamcop.help, spamcop.mail

spamcop.mail is a newsgroup for discussing problems with spamcop mail
accounts, not spamcop reporting problems.  And crossposting to two
different groups for a problem isn't necessary.

Groups trimmed to spamcop.help presuming this is related to reporting,
as there is no mention of an email account below.

> this morning was the last time I received some answers to submitted
> spam. Since this I have submitted more than 20 SPAM emails without
> getting an answer. Is there a hang-up in the system or is it regular
> maintenance ?

The last time I submitted spams was 20:18 UTC Aug 14 which haven't been
responded yet as of 20:33, but I consider that to be normal.

The graph of the reporting activity here
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?autocom=custom&page=stats  or
specifically here http://alpha.cesmail.net/graphics/spamstats.gif
doesn't show me any fresh gaps as of now.

Your date line sez

Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:14:20 +0200

so your posting appears to be 10 PM localtime, so that is quite some
hours from 'this morning' which number of hours range from 10 to 22
hours.

That is longer than the average delay, so I would say that there is
likely to be one of two problems with the lack of response;  either your
provider is interfering with your mail to spamcop, or your account
address has bounced for some reason.

You can check the status of your account address by going here and
logging in  http://www.spamcop.net/

If there is a problem with the address, then you should be alerted to
that, and you can work on figuring that out.  If there is no problem
with the address, then you can try to submit a spam and make a copy to
yourself at an address that you know that you can access a mail which
contains spam.  If your provider is blocking outgoing mail containing
spam then the copy to yourself would fail as well as the one to spamcop.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin

"Konrad" <zuse24@yahoo.de> wrote in message 
news:f9t2eu$s68$1@news.spamcop.net...
> Dear Spamcop experets,
> this morning was the last time I received some answers to 
> submitted spam.
> Since this I have submitted more than 20 SPAM emails without 
> getting an answer.
> Is there a hang-up in the system or is it regular maintenance ?

Can't help but wonder if this is in connectioin with your Forum 
posting dealing with the attempted MailHost Configuration of your 
Reporting Account .. words here and words there seem to indicate 
that AOL isn't playing weill ,,,????

"Status" of the Reporting system is seen at the top right of the 
Forum pages .... only showing a short unannouced outage earlier 
today ... currently appears to be working fine. 

Konrad wrote:
> Dear Spamcop experets,
> this morning was the last time I received some answers to submitted spam.
> Since this I have submitted more than 20 SPAM emails without getting an 
> answer.
> Is there a hang-up in the system or is it regular maintenance ?
> Please give me an advice.
> thanks
> K.

We had some mailserver issues which caused delays both inbound and 
outbound. Operations made some changes tonite to alleviate the 
situation. If you still have problems when you submit spam tomorrow 
please write to deputies <at> admin.spamcop.net and let us know.


Ellen

Dear Spamcop experets,
this morning was the last time I received some answers to submitted spam.
Since this I have submitted more than 20 SPAM emails without getting an answer.
Is there a hang-up in the system or is it regular maintenance ?
Please give me an advice.
thanks

Wazoo schrieb:
> "Konrad" <zuse24@yahoo.de> wrote in message 
> news:f9t2eu$s68$1@news.spamcop.net...
>> Dear Spamcop experets,
>> this morning was the last time I received some answers to 
>> submitted spam.
>> Since this I have submitted more than 20 SPAM emails without 
>> getting an answer.
>> Is there a hang-up in the system or is it regular maintenance ?
> 
> Can't help but wonder if this is in connectioin with your Forum 
> posting dealing with the attempted MailHost Configuration of your 
> Reporting Account .. words here and words there seem to indicate 
> that AOL isn't playing weill ,,,????
> 
> "Status" of the Reporting system is seen at the top right of the

> Forum pages .... only showing a short unannouced outage earlier 
> today ... currently appears to be working fine. 
> 
> 

No, WaZoo, the one thing has nothing to do with the other !

Just now the first reply messages came in.
It was sent out Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:05:32 +0200
and came in to yahoo.de at 19:33.
So 4,5 hrs are quite unusual for reply time but nothing to worry.

I was able to solve the AOL problem. AOL blocked the SpamCop reply messages as
SPAM without any notice.
I could access them only usinmg WebMail but there was no option to see the full
header.
It took me some time to get the idea to look for the HTML source text where the
full header can be extracted.
I will leave a note in the forum about that as soon as I have tested the system
with the next real AOL SPAM email.

Bye