I've added a requested feature, CC abuse complaints to another party (i.e. the FTC).

To use this feature, add email addresses to your CC list using 'Configure', 'CC To' from the menu, and add the desired email addresses (note the 'Add' button will not enable until there is text in the edit control).

I've also updated the filter, to minimize the chance of a false abuse complaint being sent.

And finally, I've added Macintosh Classic (OS 9, OS 8) support for Sp@mX.

http://www.hendricom.com/Downloads/spamxwindowsbinonly.zip

http://www.hendricom.com/Downloads/spamxwindows.zip
http://www.hendricom.com/Downloads/spamxmacintosh.zip
http://www.hendricom.com/Downloads/spamxlinux.zip

http://www.hendricom.com/Downloads/spamxwi...sbinonlysvr.zip

http://www.hendricom.com/Downloads/spamxwindowssvr.zip
http://www.hendricom.com/Downloads/spamxmacintoshsvr.zip
http://www.hendricom.com/Downloads/spamxlinuxsvr.zip

http://www.hendricom.com/Downloads/macintosh(classic)svr.zip
http://www.hendricom.com/Downloads/macintosh(classic).zip

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BACKUP YOUR CONFIGURATION FILES!

OK Jeff: The status line shows that the software is doing something, looking up info in the US, Europe, wherever, finding domain names, etc. Only now it hangs at "no cc: list entries."

What does one do with this?

Correctly define your SMTP server, and it's authentication.

Most SMTP servers use the IP address of the computer that last checked the POP email box to validate the user. These servers use the email authentication type None.

Some require login, so you need to set your user name, password, and change your email authentication type to Login.

I'm also getting an error at the end of my log file, "too many connections - please try again later. Disconnected. Spammer reporter"!

This is Comcast.

Can I avoid it? Should I be worried?

Depending on your ISPs policies, they might only allow you to connect n number of times in n number of minutes.

You'll have to play with this to find the 'ideal' number of reports to send before your ISP begins to whine.

Could I suggest, for a future release, configuring SpamX to work in the 'old' style of sending via the default mail app on the computer as an alternative to an immediate SMTP send?

In my experience, as you note, ISPs may limit the number of connections within a timeframe as an anti-spam measure where plonking the outgoing complaints in to the mail app's Outbox would allow for a single connect to send all the complaints in one batch ... <thinks ... OWWWW! > do ISPs look at someone sending say 500 individual e-mails as spamming? or keep that definition for multiple addressees? Over to the expert with JH on his hat I've not been told off by my ISP for sending the 971 e-mails that SpamX has racked up so far but I'm a short guy, they might not have noticed me down here

Nearing 6000 reported spam myself and no complaint from ISP yet...