IP address trapping software

get an offer for out of date versions from a magazine, usually have a discount offer for the upgrade though.

Have used Email Tracker Pro, not much goood unless you can get an answer from the ISP. Found that US Ip's prop up about 40% about the same from Eastern Europe and Asia about 20% from rest.

So it's not worth the money as most US sites will not respond and even if you do get an email back it's only an auto response.

The only ISP's that seem to reply are the Japanese and some of the Australian one's.
Again they are very guarded and likely to tell you that this email actually originated elsewhere and from what I gather they are relucant to give you any assistance other than suggest you use a spam filter unless you have a domain hosted with them.

Which is why I feel that US ISP's will not deal with these complaints, however if you have a domain hosted with one you have other avenues to address these problems with them!

So the IP address is not important.

If you look at the headers of the email, you can determine if the IP address in the header matches the domain it came from (e.g. if the header was spoofed or faked).

One of three things are happening:

1) the sender spoofs the header, which does not obscure the IP, but the domain/sender is hidden

2) the sender is relaying spam through an open 'mail relay' server, so the sender is that unsecured server, whoever it belongs to.

3) the sender is spoofing the header and using a webmail service such as yahoo or hotmail. So the IP address belongs to them.

So setting a 'trap' is, unfortunately, not going to work.

Rather than going thru mini-tutorials on how to read email headers.. try going to http://www.spamcop.net/ and submit the email as spam. SpamCop will process the email and provide yo with technical details about it, including the possible sender.

Roberto F.
http://www.logsat.com