Quoting Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > cpayne wrote: > > Robert Braver wrote: > >> Hello Payne, > >> > >> On Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 9:08:53 PM, you wrote: > >> > >> c> I am getting a lot mail which I know is from a mail program use by > >> c> spammers, called the bat. > >> > >> > > Yea, I did a search. And found you are right, shame that most of the > > spam I am using is coming from the mail program. > > Correction. The spam *claims* to be coming from The Bat!. > > With near perfect certainty, I can tell you the spam was not generated > by The Bat, Outlook, or whatever other program might appear in the > User-Agent or X-Mailer header. It is no more believable than the From: > header, and it is forged just as often (ie: nearly always). It is > generally advisable for spammers to fake this header to look like a real > mail client, as best they can, because it makes spam detection harder. > So they do. > > In reality nearly all spam is generated by custom software that runs in > the background on infected PCs in botnets.
Matt is right. Please don't block all mail from The Bat. The Bat is one of the best Windows mail clients available. It is better than any open source Linux graphical mail client I could find. The Bat has extensive sorting and filtering by folder using PCRE perl regular expressions. Just because some spamware claims to be The Bat does not mean it is. Jeff C.
