Today my ISP informed me that an abuse complaint had been lodged against me by spamcop.net.
I looked at the report and my IP is indeed in it. It seems like a valid complaint. My question, though, is how did this happen?
I'm using the Reduced Exit Policy as shown here:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/ReducedExitPoli...
Neither SMTP nor SMTPS are among the ports accepted as exit ports.
Anyone have any thoughts as to how my Tor config can be used to transmit spam?
Thanks.
Webmail services over port 80 record the clients IP address, in this case it's your TOR exit node. You will continue to get this, you can try and set it up so that Spamcop ignores your IP. Otherwise just try to explain the issue to your ISP and hope for the best.
On Aug 9, 2011, at 11:46 PM, Steve Snyder wrote:
Today my ISP informed me that an abuse complaint had been lodged against me by spamcop.net.
I looked at the report and my IP is indeed in it. It seems like a valid complaint. My question, though, is how did this happen?
I'm using the Reduced Exit Policy as shown here:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/ReducedExitPoli...
Neither SMTP nor SMTPS are among the ports accepted as exit ports.
Anyone have any thoughts as to how my Tor config can be used to transmit spam?
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On Aug 9, 2011, at 11:46 PM, Steve Snyder wrote:
Today my ISP informed me that an abuse complaint had been lodged against me by spamcop.net. (...) Anyone have any thoughts as to how my Tor config can be used to transmit spam?
Did you have the Exit node flag on port 80? You should contact directly to spamcop to inform them about tor since they are active contacting ISPs.
Hotmail sends the IP address of the client in every mail sent in the email header under [X-Originating-IP] field. Also there is a lot of Wordpress spam lately.
On 08/10/2011 05:54 AM, Javier Bassi wrote:
On Aug 9, 2011, at 11:46 PM, Steve Snyder wrote:
Today my ISP informed me that an abuse complaint had been lodged against me by spamcop.net. (...) Anyone have any thoughts as to how my Tor config can be used to transmit spam?
Did you have the Exit node flag on port 80? You should contact directly to spamcop to inform them about tor since they are active contacting ISPs.
I had and still have the ORPort on 443. I had DirPort on 9030, but have since moved it to port 80 so that I can put up the Tor Exit explanatory web page (DirPortFrontPage).
So what do people do about spam via webmail? Blocking ports 80 and 443 largely negates the point of being an exit node.
Thanks for the reply.
Hello,
On Mi, 2011-08-10 at 07:43 -0400, Steve Snyder wrote:
So what do people do about spam via webmail? Blocking ports 80 and 443 largely negates the point of being an exit node.
hmm just ignore it ? :) think i already burned the ip by having an exit node so why not get it onto the blacklists on purpose ?
Funny thing is Spam complaints made up nearly 90 % abuse complaints for me in the first few weeks, i stopped caring and the spam complaints stopped coming (maybe a few here and there, but nothing compared to the amount of complaints at the time the ip was still 'fresh')
Regards, Frank
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