Forwarding Non-spam!

SteveClarkson · Joined: Dec 18, 2002 Posts: 239

Hello there,

I work in an IT department, and one of my daily tasks is to take a look at a folder, in which all the company's spam gets shoved into.

It is stored in this folder, as .eml files, and the filename is in the following format:
FROM ADDRESS, TO ADDRESS, SUBJECT, REASON FOR BEING SPAMMED.eml

I have to trawl through this list (about 200-300 e-mails a day in total - broken up into a few visits, thankfully!), and take out anything is ISN'T spam, and forward it onto the relevant employees.

This is OK - but there are issues with people getting a bit "funny" about me having received their e-mails, and it is very uncomfortable forwarding them on, because everyone knows that in order for you to decide they arn't spam, you had to have at least read a few words!

SO - ideally, I am after a way of forwarding on the message, but with the FROM address, still being the original sender.
Everything I have read about it implies that the person is trying desperately to spam people - but to be brutally honest, if I wanted to spam people, I could think of better ways of doing it than this!

SO - any suggestions would be very much appreciated! If you would rather not post on here, through desperate fear that the evil spamming people out there will find out...feel free to PM me!

Thank you very much indeed! :biggrin:

goretsky · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:11 am Post subject:

Hello,

Doesn't Qualcomm's Eudora allow you to forward email so it appears to other mail clients that the message came from the originating party, as opposed to your mail account?

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

SteveClarkson · Joined: Dec 18, 2002 Posts: 239

Thanks for your reply.

I have downloaded Eudora, and have FINALLY managed to get it to connect to our exchange server via POP3 (not ideal, but it will do!).

It does feature a "redirect" command, which seems to work nicely. I don't particularly like the program itself - smacks of a nasty Win95 app!

Also, Eudora doesn't seem to be able to open .eml files either.

So, for the time being at least, I have set up an exchange mailbox for the spam to be delivered to, and from there, I can monitor it in Outlook, and delete the rubbish, but can then fire Eudora up to redirect a message.

I think I may go to using this instead:
http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/redirect/

Which just adds a button to Outlook, which performs the redirect function.

Thanks for your help Aryeh.

nlinecomputers · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:12 am Post subject:

Wouldn't it be better if you guys had a better spam solution so that all spam isn't shoved into one mailbox? Shouldn't the end users be deciding what is and is not spam?

tbernstein · Joined: May 16, 2003 Posts: 1576 Location: London

And, if this is a business, for business use there are two other implications;
1.) Any business e-mail ought to be clearly not spam and so not arrive in the spam bucket. If for some reason it does there's no reason for staff to be "funny" about it being intercepted first, and.......
2.) Private e-mail is a privilege and so while the staff may have a right to overall privacy there's no justification in complaining if management filter it generally for Spam, or anything else, such as inappropriate content.