I have a BombRe regex that catches foreign donation solicitations
(ivory, kuwait, nigeria, russia, etc) .  The regex matches a country
name and within a constrained amount of characters will try to match
other common spam phrasing.

In this situation, I noticed while searching my maillog for regex
effectiveness (which I also confirmed in the mail analyzer); that this
BombRe regex is matching against the word "russia" in the subject line,
and is wildcard matching across any of the headers found below it and
then into the message body.

Example header:
~~~~~
Subject: Assistance with Upcoming Law Conference in Russia
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:15:45 -0700
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-MS-Has-Attach: yes
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
etc, etc...

In the mail log:
~~~~~
Bomb: Regex:Bomb 'Russia Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:'

In the analyzer:
~~~~~
• Bomb RE: 'Russia Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:15:45 -0700 Message-ID:
X-MS-Has-Attach: yes X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: etc, etc...  (this match
continues into the message body)




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