email's with nothing no subject no body
Derek Winkler
dwinkler at ALGORITHMICS.COM
Thu May 27 14:36:37 IST 2004
We used to get a lot of these too. May have been discussed on the list
before.
In our case, the message id header had invalid characters in it effectively
cutting off the email.
You may be able to write SpamAssassin rules to look for these invalid
characters.
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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Chris Lyon
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:35 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: email's with nothing no subject no body
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> We have been getting a lot of e-mails with just nothing in
> them from random
> addresses. We can't help to think that spammers are looking for valid
> addresses or something to that affect. Is there a way to
> block this type of
> activity?
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