We route WEIGHT20 mail to a special mailbox. After checking this
mailbox I noticed something that I wasn't aware of. Some messages when
viewed in Imail web messaging was regular spam BUT when I viewed the
same message using the Imail client that is installed on the server
with Imail it was a regular message albeit faked. Most likely to fool
messages sniffers. Look at this.

Here is the full header from the message in Imail web messaging. Check
the subject line. It's a spam about financing (the prefix POSSIBLE
SPAM is what we add on at WEIGHT10):

Received: from MX4.NetWood.net [209.247.184.2] by netwood.net with
ESMTP
  (SMTPD32-7.15) id AEB6273900AA; Thu, 09 Oct 2003 13:01:58 -0700
Received: from mx168.rewardd3.us (unknown [204.29.185.168])
by MX4.NetWood.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CF33EE429
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu,  9 Oct 2003 13:00:47 -0700 (PDT)
(envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Joy Raquel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Kristine Alexandria Gisladottir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: POSSIBLE SPAM:Kristine, Venice locale-4.50% - Don't Wait
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 20:00:55 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_2BF831_01C38E75.C126D010"
Thread-Index: AcOOn0EeLDQzJkTVRCqLk7KsbjkTEg==
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
X-RBL-Warning: SPAMCOP: Blocked - see
http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?204.29.185.168
X-RBL-Warning: EASYNET-DNSBL: Blacklisted by easynet.nl DNSBL -
http://blackholes.easynet.nl/errors.html
X-RBL-Warning: SBL:
http://www.spamhaus.org/SBL/sbl.lasso?query=SBL9062
X-RBL-Warning: REVDNS: This E-mail was sent from a MUA/MTA
204.29.185.168 with no reverse DNS entry.
X-Declude-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [204.29.185.168]
X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com)
for spam.
X-Spam-Tests-Failed: SPAMCOP, EASYNET-DNSBL, SBL, IPNOTINMX,
NOLEGITCONTENT, REVDNS, WEIGHT10, WEIGHT20 [25]
X-RCPT-TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Status: R
X-UIDL: 365644892 

Here is the content of the message in Imail client. This is the only
text, nothing of the spam is there.

Another black hole was discovered in a galaxy less than 21 million
light years from Earth. This 
black hole has a mass of more than 40 million suns. 
In Galaxy NGC 6240, almost 300 million light years from Earth,
astronomers believe to have 
found a black hole during observations of two colliding galaxies. The
black hole is caught between the two 
galaxies and is expected to merge with them in the next few hundred
million years. It has a mass 10 to 100 
times larger than any black hole ever found. It has the mass of the
Milky Way in 1/10,000th the area.

I assume that they must do this to try to avoid content filtering. I
was never aware of that they could fake messages like this.

Jonas Fornander - System Administrator
Netwood Communications,LLC - www.netwood.net
Find out why we're better - 310-442-1530
 

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