SpamCop.net is the solution.
Registration is easy, and free. (If you donate a small amount, the system will allow faster processing of each spam report, less lag time, but the free account works fine and fast enough for most purposes.)
Once you register an account and before you start reporting SPAM, be sure to register each of your MailHosts with them, so that you don't end up reporting yourself!
You need register just ONE email from each host, for example ONE gmail, one yahoo, one hotmail, one @ whatever.com email for any of your business personal domains that use cpanel or other email, etc.
To register MailHosts:
You submit one test email and register its source (headers + content) with SpamCop, such as for example here is the process for registering a hotmail email address:
1. Register your SpamCop.net account
2. Login to your SpamCop account
I like to set it for a login that expires on 1 year. That way you are able to keep submitting spam for a while without the need to keep logging into your browser. As long as cookies remain intact, you will remain logged in on that browser for 1 year.
3. Click on Mailhosts
4. Click on Add new hosts
5. Enter an email. In the example below I add a hotmail email and its standard name, in this example, hotmail.com
6. Proceed to send the test email
The test email will be sent
7. Within your email account (in this case hotmail) locate the [SpamCop] account configuration email
and visit the URL
https://www.spamcop.net/mcgi?action=mhreturn
and submit the full headers + content "source" of the email at that address. With hotmail, the process to get the complete source via "View message source" which is found by clicking on the three dots ... on the right. (More actions) When you view the message source, click to select all or scroll through it while selecting all of it, and copy all of it.
8. Go to the address to submit the email source
and submit the entire source in the first box (or divide it up into headers in box above and email message in bottom)
Click to process sample.
If you encounter formatting errors, then submit via direct email, as an attachment. With hotmail, you must copy/paste the entire email into a txt file and then submit it as an .eml attachment.
SpamCop will confirm proper receipt and add this to your list of MailHosts. If you have any issues, use the Help / How can I contact a SpamCop representative link
Other reasons for contact
Contact SpamCop
form to submit the headers manually to Richard, the spamcop admin, who will add the mailhost for you himself.
Use this same contact form to contact SpamCop for help if needed with reporting any SPAM in the future as well.
From that point on, whenever you receive an email, copy/paste the full email source into this window
click to Process Spam, and it will be reported automatically, with all headers parsed and with the spam reported not just to the ISP but even the backbone (admin) of the offender's ISP.
Be careful about reporting SPAM that includes your own URLs within the body of the email...somehow referring to your own domain URL within the email. Remember, SpamCop parses all URLs to report to the admin of these URLs, and it will do the same if your own domain is somehow referenced within the email. For these, UNcheck any SPAM cop reports as they are being sent out that might result in your reporting yourself. (This is a rare occurrence, not something to worry about too much, but just keep an eye out for say, SEO spammers that refer to your own website URL within the body of the email, offering to help you...SpamCop will pull this URL out of the email and try to send a report to your own ISP reporting the Spam.)
For example look here
the red circled portion references my OWN website - because my URL was referenced in this spam email by the spammer - I would want to UNcheck those two boxes before sending in the report, to make sure I don't report myself. Again, this situation arises rarely - most Spam is very generic and does not reference your own website.
You must report the spam within 48 hours of receipt. When I am traveling and too busy to report SPAM, I just let it go until I have returned.
Be patient - some spam will be shut down with just one report, but other spam, from more "spam friendly" ISPs such as in countries like China, might take more than one report to shut down. Some spam will seem to never stop, but reporting it like this does help shut it all down, eventually.
If you receive a long row of SPAM and notice that the reports are going to the same ISP / admin etc., just report the first and last spam in the list; that is usually enough to get the message across.
You will occasionally get a message when you report the spam that "the ISP has indicated that the spam will cease" which means that SpamCop has already done its job.
I don't tolerate spam, and don't take cotton to spammers!
I report most all of 'em.
Registration is easy, and free. (If you donate a small amount, the system will allow faster processing of each spam report, less lag time, but the free account works fine and fast enough for most purposes.)
Once you register an account and before you start reporting SPAM, be sure to register each of your MailHosts with them, so that you don't end up reporting yourself!
You need register just ONE email from each host, for example ONE gmail, one yahoo, one hotmail, one @ whatever.com email for any of your business personal domains that use cpanel or other email, etc.
To register MailHosts:
You submit one test email and register its source (headers + content) with SpamCop, such as for example here is the process for registering a hotmail email address:
1. Register your SpamCop.net account
2. Login to your SpamCop account
I like to set it for a login that expires on 1 year. That way you are able to keep submitting spam for a while without the need to keep logging into your browser. As long as cookies remain intact, you will remain logged in on that browser for 1 year.
3. Click on Mailhosts
4. Click on Add new hosts
5. Enter an email. In the example below I add a hotmail email and its standard name, in this example, hotmail.com
6. Proceed to send the test email
The test email will be sent
7. Within your email account (in this case hotmail) locate the [SpamCop] account configuration email
and visit the URL
https://www.spamcop.net/mcgi?action=mhreturn
and submit the full headers + content "source" of the email at that address. With hotmail, the process to get the complete source via "View message source" which is found by clicking on the three dots ... on the right. (More actions) When you view the message source, click to select all or scroll through it while selecting all of it, and copy all of it.
8. Go to the address to submit the email source
and submit the entire source in the first box (or divide it up into headers in box above and email message in bottom)
Click to process sample.
If you encounter formatting errors, then submit via direct email, as an attachment. With hotmail, you must copy/paste the entire email into a txt file and then submit it as an .eml attachment.
SpamCop will confirm proper receipt and add this to your list of MailHosts. If you have any issues, use the Help / How can I contact a SpamCop representative link
Other reasons for contact
Contact SpamCop
form to submit the headers manually to Richard, the spamcop admin, who will add the mailhost for you himself.
Use this same contact form to contact SpamCop for help if needed with reporting any SPAM in the future as well.
From that point on, whenever you receive an email, copy/paste the full email source into this window
click to Process Spam, and it will be reported automatically, with all headers parsed and with the spam reported not just to the ISP but even the backbone (admin) of the offender's ISP.
Be careful about reporting SPAM that includes your own URLs within the body of the email...somehow referring to your own domain URL within the email. Remember, SpamCop parses all URLs to report to the admin of these URLs, and it will do the same if your own domain is somehow referenced within the email. For these, UNcheck any SPAM cop reports as they are being sent out that might result in your reporting yourself. (This is a rare occurrence, not something to worry about too much, but just keep an eye out for say, SEO spammers that refer to your own website URL within the body of the email, offering to help you...SpamCop will pull this URL out of the email and try to send a report to your own ISP reporting the Spam.)
For example look here
the red circled portion references my OWN website - because my URL was referenced in this spam email by the spammer - I would want to UNcheck those two boxes before sending in the report, to make sure I don't report myself. Again, this situation arises rarely - most Spam is very generic and does not reference your own website.
You must report the spam within 48 hours of receipt. When I am traveling and too busy to report SPAM, I just let it go until I have returned.
Be patient - some spam will be shut down with just one report, but other spam, from more "spam friendly" ISPs such as in countries like China, might take more than one report to shut down. Some spam will seem to never stop, but reporting it like this does help shut it all down, eventually.
If you receive a long row of SPAM and notice that the reports are going to the same ISP / admin etc., just report the first and last spam in the list; that is usually enough to get the message across.
You will occasionally get a message when you report the spam that "the ISP has indicated that the spam will cease" which means that SpamCop has already done its job.
I don't tolerate spam, and don't take cotton to spammers!
I report most all of 'em.
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