SidewinderX: Automated spam reporting
SidewinderX is an automated spam and phishing scam reporting tool.
At the click of an applescript it will process your Junk mailbox, determine the sending domain of all the junk mails inside it and report them to the abuse contact of that domain.
A new version (1.0.5), released a few days ago, includes scripts to automate the reporting for Mail.app, Entourage, Mailsmith, Eudora, and Powermail.
You can see a helpful screencast of how it works on the developer’s web site 
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No doubt it’s clever; the real question is, is it smart?
Debate continues. Despite some miracle stories on the results of bouncing spam emails, there are some reasons why bouncing (or automated spam reporting) may not be a good idea.
You can read them in previous Hawk Wings post on “To bounce or not to bounce?” here and here.
Apple’s own technote on tries to distinguish between spam worth bouncing (or reporting) and spam that is not.
SidewinderX is sharware (USD 19.95) and is available from the developer’s web site .
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