RE: Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis

["David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>]

  I like http://spamcop.net.  It analyzes the headers, doing
a good job of detecting forgeries and known open relays, and
automatically looks up the appropriate abuse addresses, although
it's up to you whether you use it to actually send a complaint 
or not.

Dave Gillett

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Cuff [talisker] [mailto:offthecuff () lineone net]
> Sent: October 25, 2003 03:43
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis
>
>
> Hi
> Whilst drowning my sorrows in the UK rain following our 
> resounding defeat in
> the Eurovision song contest (Politics in Europe surely not !!)  I have
> turned my attention to email headers.
>
> Whilst I'm quietly confident about manually analysing email 
> headers,  I'm
> looking for tools or web resources that will automate some of 
> the process.
> There are plenty of anti-spam resources such as 
> http://combat.uxn.com/ and
> http://www.spamhaus.org/ to identify spammers and there is 
> the infamous Sam
> Spade for testing Open Mail Relay Agents. There are a 
> plethora of how-to's
> and FAQ's about analysing headers manually.   But I haven't found many
> resources that analyse the headers in sufficient accurate detail.
>
> Personally I would rather run a tool on my own system than 
> put my headers
> through a 3rd party website but there are a few sites that 
> seem to do it
> fairly well such as http://www.3dmail.com/spam/ which whilst 
> spam focussed
> seems fairly comprehensive, though sadly a beta which hasn't 
> been updated in
> a year.
>
> Any recommendations websites or tools would be greatly 
> appreciated, if there
> is a sufficient response I will collate the information onto 
> a new page for
> the website below and post a summary to this list
>
> cheers, and for the Brits have a good Bank Holiday Weekend I hope the
> weather is better where you are!
>
> take care
> -andy
> Taliskers Network Security Tools
> http://www.networkintrusion.co.uk
>
>
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