sean wrote:

> On 01/10/2017 06:06 PM, Richard Alan wrote:
>> sean wrote:
>>> funny, I was just on the line with our ISP (freaking cox.net) about a
>>> flood of new spam from  (AT)onmicrosoft.com... doesn't seem to matter
>>> how many times I mark their whole domain as spam, I seem to be getting
>>> exponentially more...
>> 
>> A WHOIS lookup indicates that onmicrosoft.com is owned by Microsoft. Of
>> course, it is entirely possible that a professional spammer is simply
>> using that domain name in his spew.
>> 
>> What is the nature of these emails that you are classifying as spam?
>       
> pondering... not really sure y'all want me forwarding the headers
> here...

No, not headers. By the "nature" I meant general content.

> lots of variation of spam and phishing offers all of which contain
> onmicrosoft.com within the from, but not the reply to:

You could get the sending IP addresses from the headers and look up where 
they are being sent from.
 
> but I can with some direction about what to obscure or delete...

Probably not worth the time. I don't have time to look them up for you. 
I'd say simply that a spammer found your address, and he uses the 
Microsoft address as his From:.

Train the filter.
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