If someone would like to venture a guess as to what happened here, I would
love to hear it.

I just received a Nigerian bank scam - my first since putting in IMail 8.0x
last July as Nigeria was one of the first 10 spam words I added.

This one came through without a problem, which really shocked as I know I
have about 5 phrases on this email in the phrase list, yet none of them
triggered although it is a simple ascii text. Although Outlook 2003 nailed
it as spam, IMail did nothing. This is a clear software failure from what I
can see, unless someone can tell me why it wasn't caught.

I have double checked the IP in the trusted IP addresses and in the white
list - nothing even close.

The only possibility, though I doubt it, did IPSWITCH put something in the
code not return Spam codes if word IMAIL is in the domain? Again, I doubt
it, but I see no other reason for the failure to catch something so simple.

Furthermore, it looks like it started the delivery process at 20:26:59
before it even went to the spam phrase list at 20:27.

Any light here would be appreciated.


The first part of the email:

-----Original Message-----
From: ibe festus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 8:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: *JOINT VENTURE*


Dear Friend,

I am Barrister Festus Ibe, the Personal Attorney
to a Foreign Contractor, who worked with a
Multinational Oil Firm in Nigeria.
On the 11th of September 2001, my client, a Mexican
National, late
engineer Carlos Montoya, an oil Merchant / Contractor
with the Federal Government of Nigeria, until his
death Three years ago in a ghastly
terrorist attack to American Airlines Flight 11, from
Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California,
crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre
with 86 people on board. All occupants of the
Aeroplane unfortunately lost their lives. For more
information visit
this website:


from the phrase-list:

nifty-fun-pages
niftygifts
nigeria
night with a prostitute


And the logs:

20040416 202626 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (79b200e4013490e9) [207.168.61.195]
EHLO iserver40.infranet
20040416 202627 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (79b200e4013490e9) [207.168.61.195]
MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20040416 202627 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (79b200e4013490e9) [207.168.61.195]
RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20040416 202627 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (79b200e4013490e9) [207.168.61.195]
d:\IMail\spool\D79b200e4013490e9.SMD 3234
20040416 202627 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (79b200e4013490e9) performing antispam
checks
20040416 202659 127.0.0.1       SMTP (79b200e4013490e9) processing
d:\IMail\spool\Q79b200e4013490e9.SMD
20040416 202700 127.0.0.1       SMTP (79b200e4013490e9) forwarded message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
20040416 202700 127.0.0.1       SMTP (79b200e4013490e9) ldeliver
mydomain.tld me-main (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3234
20040416 202700 127.0.0.1       SMTP (79b200e4013490e9) finished
d:\IMail\spool\Q79b200e4013490e9.SMD status=1


04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
connecting to service (spamhaus:*:sbl.spamhaus.org)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
207.168.61.195 was not found on list (spamhaus:*:sbl.spamhaus.org)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
connecting to service (SpamCop:*:bl.spamcop.net)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
207.168.61.195 was not found on list (SpamCop:*:bl.spamcop.net)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
connecting to service (Ordb-Relays:*:relays.ordb.org)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
207.168.61.195 was not found on list (Ordb-Relays:*:relays.ordb.org)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
connecting to service (dnsrbl:*:spam.dnsrbl.net)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
207.168.61.195 was not found on list (dnsrbl:*:spam.dnsrbl.net)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
connecting to service (njabl:*:dnsbl.njabl.org)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
207.168.61.195 was not found on list (njabl:*:dnsbl.njabl.org)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
connecting to service (Orid:*:antispam.or.id)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
207.168.61.195 was not found on list (Orid:*:antispam.or.id)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
connecting to service (ReynoldsSpews:*:spews.bl.reynolds.net.au)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
207.168.61.195 was not found on list
(ReynoldsSpews:*:spews.bl.reynolds.net.au)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
connecting to service (Inflow:*:inflow.blackholes.us)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
207.168.61.195 was not found on list (Inflow:*:inflow.blackholes.us)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
connecting to service (ScaryDevil:*:msgid.bl.gweep.ca)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
207.168.61.195 was not found on list (ScaryDevil:*:msgid.bl.gweep.ca)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
connecting to service (ChinaNet:*:chinanet.blackholes.us)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
207.168.61.195 was not found on list (ChinaNet:*:chinanet.blackholes.us)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
connecting to service (DSBL:*:list.dbsl.org)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
207.168.61.195 was not found on list (DSBL:*:list.dbsl.org)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
connecting to service (FabelSources:*:spamsources.fabel.dk)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
207.168.61.195 was not found on list (FabelSources:*:spamsources.fabel.dk)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
connecting to service (AHBL:*:dnsbl.ahbl.org)
04:16 20:26 SMTPD(79b200e4013490e9) [00007344] <mydomain.tld> BLACKLIST:
207.168.61.195 was not found on list (AHBL:*:dnsbl.ahbl.org)
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9) Got Content Filter for mydomain.tld
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9) scanning the subject for phrases
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9) scanning the body for phrases
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9) performing statistical analysis
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9) The following words were used to compute
the probability email is spam
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = montoya, probability = 0.990000
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = engineer, probability = 0.015330
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = day, probability = 0.017276
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = had, probability = 0.042721
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = avail, probability = 0.048362
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = attack, probability = 0.068792
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = ibe, probability = 0.930863
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = can, probability = 0.069762
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = september, probability =
0.070727
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = crashed, probability = 0.071780
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = his, probability = 0.072141
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = unfortunately, probability =
0.077006
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = regards, probability = 0.083417
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = ago, probability = 0.085290
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9)   word = worked, probability = 0.091882
04:16 20:27 SMTP(79b200e4013490e9) probability email is spam 0.000000: email
is good




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