Hello St, On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 you wrote:
>> 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. SMN> This is very true - but if an anti-spam filter reject messages based SMN> on the fact that the word "PayPal" is present in subject is a stupid SMN> anti-spam-filter. I mean, apparently it's stupid to you and me... but SMN> it is also *professionally stupid* - one would think a professional SMN> company had a better system running than that? SMN> The only plausible reason why a filter would block such a message SMN> Jack is talking about is if one Redirect / Delegate a message that was SMN> originally sent from PayPal. If the text is fully intact AND the anti- SMN> spam system found it to be suspicious (looks like a phishing attempt) SMN> AND the IP the Redirected / Delegated message is now coming from is not SMN> in the IP-range PayPal is using to send mail, THEN one could expect a SMN> system to look at it with a suspicious mind and to consider it to be a SMN> possible phishing attempt. But blocking a message just because "PayPal" SMN> is present in Subject is just stupid. Also it doesn't seem to be the case. After I responded to Geoff's message I sent myself a message with "PayPal" in the subject line and it went through just fine. Admittedly, the message body consisted simply of a salutation and sig. It may be that a message with "PayPal" in the subject line AND a fair amount of text in the body *might* trigger a block. More experimentation necessary. -- Best Regards, Jack LaRosa :usflag: Central Alabama Using The Bat! ver: 5.2. Running Windows XP Pro ver 5 build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
