PDA

View Full Version : email header translation, please

spellgame
1 Jul 2006, 5:30pm
What does X-NAS-BWL mean in the message source details of an email?
It's followed by 'no match found for...' or 'match found' and the number of addresses and domains.
primesuspect
1 Jul 2006, 5:36pm
post the whole header (blacking out any private info if you prefer)
spellgame
1 Jul 2006, 5:58pm
post the whole header (blacking out any private info if you prefer)

this is an example..not the entire header, but the part I don't understand.


Subject: New Private Message at Short-Media Forums
From: "Short-Media Forums" <shorty@short-media.com>
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
Message-ID: <200607011613.6403f3453933@www.short-media.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: vBulletin Mail via PHP
X-NAS-BWL: No match found for 'shorty@short-media.com' (23 addresses, 0 domains)
X-NAS-Language: English
X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 1.16876E-088; #1: 1
X-NAS-Classification: 0
X-NAS-MessageID: 1257
X-NAS-Validation: {F4F05912-C76F-4713-BA0D-F5BE5C99793F}
primesuspect
1 Jul 2006, 6:10pm
X-NAS = Norton Anti-Spam. you apparently have norton antispam installed on your PC. X- headers are any meta tags appended to the header by various apps along the road.
spellgame
1 Jul 2006, 6:28pm
X-NAS = Norton Anti-Spam. you apparently have norton antispam installed on your PC. X- headers are any meta tags appended to the header by various apps along the road.

X-NAS-BWL: Found match for _______ on the allowed list (9 addresses, 0 domains)

Thanks. This is an example of one that was 'found'. What would this mean? Norton found a match to that email address? I don't have an 'allowed list' nor have I blocked any mail. Just curious what a match actually is and how sender's addresses are designated differently - a good or bad thing if Norton finds them? haha
primesuspect
1 Jul 2006, 6:35pm
I would check norton's support forums, or product help for the answer to that. Maybe they have an internal whitelist (like mail from support@symantec.com or something like that).
Enverex
1 Jul 2006, 9:55pm
I assume the BWL stands for Black/White list.