Auto-identify country source of emails received via software addin

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mavi

Hi,
We are looking for a software or add-in that can be installed within Vista
Mail and that would automatically identify the country of origin of each
email received... for example by showing a small country flag icon beside
each incoming email within our mailbox.

We need to quickly filter spam and competitor emails from certain countries.
At present, we do it manually by copy pasting the header of a suspicious mail
into a website online that looks up the country of origin for us, by this
takes time (we use
http://whatismyipaddress.com/staticpages/index.php/trace-email-source-IP-address).

So we would like to know of any add-in that automates this process, paid or
otherwise, or any alternatives that people are using for this kind of problem.

Thanks in advance for any tips,
 
Sorry, there is no automated add-on for that.

I use http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation instead of
the resource you mentioned, but they do similar things.
The fly in the ointment is that finding the real IP address of the message
source can be very difficult. Like it says at
http://whatismyipaddress.com/staticpages/index.php/trace-email-source-IP-address

"This E-Mail header analysis tool assumes all mail servers and clients in
the transmission path are trustworthy. It does not attempt to detect forged
e-mail headers. Forged headers are common in spam..."

It takes some very sophisticated analysis to determine which headers are
forged and which ones are trustworthy. I have a membership with SpamCop
( http://www.spamcop.net ) which gives me access to their email source
locater tool, but it doesn't have real-time integration with email clients.

Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/profile/vandermolen
 
Gary

That post is a Spam and has been posted to many other newsgroups. Open the link and
do a search for any email ady in the search box and see what comes up as you go
through it

--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

Sorry, there is no automated add-on for that.

I use http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation instead of
the resource you mentioned, but they do similar things.
The fly in the ointment is that finding the real IP address of the message
source can be very difficult. Like it says at
http://whatismyipaddress.com/staticpages/index.php/trace-email-source-IP-address

"This E-Mail header analysis tool assumes all mail servers and clients in
the transmission path are trustworthy. It does not attempt to detect forged
e-mail headers. Forged headers are common in spam..."

It takes some very sophisticated analysis to determine which headers are
forged and which ones are trustworthy. I have a membership with SpamCop
( http://www.spamcop.net ) which gives me access to their email source
locater tool, but it doesn't have real-time integration with email clients.

Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/profile/vandermolen
 
I assume you are correct but I don't see the purpose of spamming this.
Perhaps the request is sincere and they should not be posting the same
message so many times. The request seems valid, even if the requestor is
not.
 
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