Empty emails

[Antony Stone]

On Sunday 24 August 2003 1:01 am, Listmom wrote:

> > Date:    Sat, 23 Aug 2003 18:26:07 +0100
> > From:    Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> > Subject: Re: Empty emails
> >
> > Are these emails from Sobig-F? If so, don't worry this is normal.
>
> No such luck.  It seem random, and occurs with legitimate emails.  I'll
> receive an email from someone, along with a second 1 or 2k email with the
> header only - no body.  And it doesn't happen for all emails.

If they're 1k - 2k emails, can you check one of them thoroughly to see if
they're actually MIME encoded, with a text/plain section which is empty?

I sometimes see Spam come in like this. I use a text-only mail client - I
don't want to see HTML in emails, and some Spam is MIME encoded with a
text/plain section, and a text/html section, but the plain part is empty.

Just wondering if this might be what you're seeing (although I'm not sure why
you get the duplication).

Antony.

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