Alex (aka "MySQL Student") wrote: > I'm trying to figure out if this is spam: > http://pastebin.com/m64a38b1 > > I've had to obscure it to get around pastebin's spam filter by > changing the '@' to '%#' in this message. The exxample.com is also > my change. > > Is the habeas stuff right? How about mkt058.com? Is that a valid > server for shutterfly or is it indeed blacklisted, as JMF_BL > suggests? > > Bayes is also marking it has ham, so I'm especially concerned.
The DKIM passes from shutterfly.messages2.com rather than shutterfly.com .. Messages2.com appears to be an email marketing service that is legitimately used by Shutterfly.com as noted at http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/shutterfly.com/summary/ (see "what our inbox looked like after we signed up here" which contains two messages from @service.shutterfly.com and one message from @shutterfly.messages2.com). mail2196c.mkt058.com is listed as permitted by the authoritative SPF record for shutterfly.messages2.com, so they are affiliated. Messages2 and/or mkt058.com have been thorough in working to ensure their mail gets delivered cleanly, using SPF, DKIM, and Habeas (which are all sender verification tools, the last of which is a sort of "we promise this isn't spam" tool). The message also has a List-Unsubscribe header while lacking a Precedence header (hmm...). However, all that does is assure you that the message came from Shutterfly and/or its affiliates (and/or THEIR affiliates). As to whether it was solicited ... I can't answer that. Obviously somebody reported it to JMF HostKarma as a spamming relay (which differs from the Hostkarma ruling on similar company Constant Contact ... though I don't know specific differences between the two). I'd lean on saying it's safe to unsubscribe and that if you want to complain, I'd aim that primarily at Shutterfly's abuse team.
