I wonder what company that was.... Anti-spam work is a royal pain - still the best way to stop it is user education.
------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:22 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Using script to get header info > > > That's a fine way to fight Spam if you're interested in job security. > Or maybe not. At a previous customer, there was a guy whose > job it was > to take Spam complaints and add the sending domain to the block list. > While I was on the project there, he was laid off. > > Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP > Technical Consultant > hp Services > "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral > problems." > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mike > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:03 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Using script to get header info > > > Hi folks, > > I created a public folder and asked several of our users to move their > spam into it. From there, I can open the messages, view the headers, > pluck the IP addresses of the offending mail servers, and add them to > our internal dns blacklist. > > Works like a charm, but it's very labor-intensive. > > I wrote some vbscript code that examines all the messages in > the folder, > and returns things like Sender, Subject, etc., all of which are > basically useless to me in this case, but the practice was good. There > doesn't seem to be any property that will return the header > info, no? I > don't have a good reference book handy, but searching through > the online > MSDN library was helpful. > > Now it looks like maybe ADO/CDOEX might be the way to go. Does anyone > have any sample code that might give me some pointers? This > doesn't have > to be fandy or polished. If I can retrieve the headers, I can parse > through them and find the right "received by" line, and pull > the address > from that line and output it to the screen. I'd greatly appreciate any > pointers at all, be it a web page, KB article, book, etc. > > Thanks, > Mike > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
