> Often ISP's anti-spam filters, both outgoing and incoming, can be a > little overzealous IME. The same can be said of desktop anti-spam > software. Your messages probably had to pass through three or more > such filters. So many pieces of phishing spam claim to be from Paypal, > that some false positives are almost inevitable, and I suspect that > your message was falsely tagged as spam.
This is very true - but if an anti-spam filter reject messages based on the fact that the word "PayPal" is present in subject is a stupid anti-spam-filter. I mean, apparently it's stupid to you and me... but it is also *professionally stupid* - one would think a professional company had a better system running than that? The only plausible reason why a filter would block such a message Jack is talking about is if one Redirect / Delegate a message that was originally sent from PayPal. If the text is fully intact AND the anti- spam system found it to be suspicious (looks like a phishing attempt) AND the IP the Redirected / Delegated message is now coming from is not in the IP-range PayPal is using to send mail, THEN one could expect a system to look at it with a suspicious mind and to consider it to be a possible phishing attempt. But blocking a message just because "PayPal" is present in Subject is just stupid. -- St - Musaic.Net <mailto:listen2rea...@musaic.net> ________________________________________________ Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
