Re: tracing emails

From: Michael Santovec (michael_santovec_at_REMOVEprodigy.net)
Date: 02/21/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:50:47 -0800

If he has closed his dial-up account, then he shouldn't be able to send via that ISP.

You need to complain to the owner of the SMTP mail server where the message entered the
Internet. If the message is coming from one of their customers, then they can track down
who that is from the full message headers.

If it's not one of their customers, then they have an "open relay" SMTP mail server.
That's an invitation to spammers. In that case, report the SMTP owner to your ISP who
should look into blocking all mail from that source. 

--
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"Ray" <noto@NOTOSPAM.co.uk> wrote in message
news:s6kZb.7037$h44.889512@stones.force9.net...
> I've been getting abusive emails which I'm pretty sure are from a
> disgruntled customer, sent via a now defunct yahoo account. Whilst I can
> trace the ISP he's connected with etc., if he's now closed his  dial up
> account, is there any way to trace the telephone number the ISP was dialled
> from? Many thanks
>
>

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