Christian Dior, the French fashion house, want to sell clothes to ancient spamtraps. The ESP appears to be Prosodie.
Spamming IP: 213.139.96.61
Spam headers:
Return-Path: <contact@emailing.christiandior.fr>
Received: from emailing.christiandior.fr (emailing.christiandior.fr [213.139.96.61])
by x (Postfix) with SMTP id x
for <x>; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:5x:xx +0200 (EET)
From: DIOR <newsletterdior@dior.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:5x:xx +0100
Subject: Discover the new Miss Dior collection
To: x
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: NMS - 1:1 Mail!, Build 4.05.2004
Reply-To: DIOR <newsletterdior@dior.com>
Message-ID: <NMID-x-x-x-AA==@dior>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_404_x.x"
Human-readable spam contents:
If you do not see this email, click here:
http://emailing.christiandior.fr/r/?id=x,x,x&p1=x
or copy the link in your Web navigator
*****************************************************************************
MISS DIOR
Discover
http://emailing.christiandior.fr/r/?id=x,x,x
*****************************************************************************
Legal terms
http://emailing.christiandior.fr/r/?id=x,x,x
To ensure that our emails arrive safely in your inbox,
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To be removed from future mailings, click here:
http://emailing.christiandior.fr/r/?id=x,x,x&p1=x/x+x
And the HTML part:
.yshortcuts { color:#fefefe }
.diorcontact .yshortcuts { color:#929395 }
Prosodie appears to be something more like an outsourced SMTP service than an ESP, from reading their web site. Here’s how they describe themselves:
That description leads me to think that their services should not include bulk marketing email. Transactional email — non-bulk emails to individual email addresses that are sent as part of a transaction — isn’t bulk and is a very different type of thing than bulk. Unfortunately many companies (including banks and credit card issuers) do not honor bounces with transactional accounts. That stupidity results in such emails being sent to spamtraps. :/
If you have a slightly larger message body sample, Atro, I’d like to see it. I can’t tell from what you posted whether that is a quasi-transactional email to a customer, or a clearly marketing email to a list.
There you have it. There’s no way this is transactional.
Sure doesn’t look like it. :/ Which suggests to me one of two things: either Dior is using its “transactional” IP from Prosodie for non-transactional emails, or Prosodie’s description on their own web site of their business is inaccurate or incomplete.