On 12/22/2009 11:01, Paul Russell wrote:
> On 12/22/2009 10:45, Andrew Bosch wrote:
>> That is a tricky one. The spam sender could be any one of the editors or subscribers, assuming
>> that the spams he gets are not just coincidental. If he has access to the MTA logs, the SMTP
>> transaction information could be revealing.
>>
>
> Almost everything useful that he could find in the MTA log should also be
> present in the full message headers on the spam.
>

Plus, the full headers will reveal the complete delivery path from the point of
origin - information which will not be available in the MTA log, if the message
originated from a system other than the one which delivered it to the MTA.

--
Paul Russell, Senior Systems Administrator
OIT Messaging Services Team
University of Notre Dame