==WARNING== "adult" content (i.e. spam message included)
Since the last update, I've noticed a reduction in successful analyses -- of several dozen spam messages processed, SpamX has only sent 2 reports.
While some of this seems to be due to a spate of junk spam (I don't know what else to call it; it appears to be intended for annoyance or to test a delivery vehicle rather than to actually try to sell something), some of it seems to be "real" spam that "should" have been reported.
In particular, I looked at one message, which had been bounced as a non-member posting to a mailing list I manage. Thinking that the fact that it had been bounced already might have confused SpamX, I edited the headers, stripping out the bounce message and spam-assassin notes that had been added, and reprocessed. No go. Looking at the body of the text, I saw a URL for the product, so I added a forged FROM address using that domain as the domain of the sender -- still no go. Finally, I checked to see that the URL was actually valid, which it was -- a commercial credit card processing service that should at least be paying lip-service to preventing spam.
Here's the entirety of the message in question, and the log entry. The original from address was lukecostar@the-lair.com:
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:17:37 GMT
from: foo@nanobill.com
To: vintage-dance@world.std.com
Subject: Your lolitas
Message-ID: <3082046360.38636544881544@the-lair.com>
X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d)
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
LOLITAS SOFTCORE
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stripping with pleasure only for you!
http://nanobill.com/527/all/
LOLITAS HARDCORE
New! Exclusive 3D Extreme Lolita hardcore collections:
Art drawings of taboo lolita sex. Young creatures fucked
by men. Extreme explicit scenes!
==Warning - found zero IP addresses in header==
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:17:37 GMT
From: lukecostar@the-lair.com
To: vintage-dance@world.std.com
Subject: Your lolitas
Message-ID: <3082046360.38636544881544@the-lair.com>
X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d)
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
==Warning - found zero IP addresses in header==
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:17:37 GMT
from: foo@nanobill.com
From: lukecostar@the-lair.com
To: vintage-dance@world.std.com
Subject: Your lolitas
Message-ID: <3082046360.38636544881544@the-lair.com>
X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d)
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
==Warning - found zero IP addresses in header==
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:17:37 GMT
from: foo@nanobill.com
To: vintage-dance@world.std.com
Subject: Your lolitas
Message-ID: <3082046360.38636544881544@the-lair.com>
X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d)
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)