Re: Empty mails without body or subject

2001-12-12 Thread Prahlad Vaidyanathan 

Hi,

Wow ! This is the first time I've seen a mail to the cs.hmc.edu address.
Please send mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 Balazs Javor spewed into the ether:
 Hi,
 
 I'm getting a lot of mails novadays which have no
 subject and no body at all. They all seem to come
 from various mailing list I'm subscribed to, nut mostly
 from debian-users and linux-kernel. Also all of them
 seem to have a bounce address of that list in the From
 headers. e.g bounce-debian-user... or owner-linux-kernel...
 
 I've read once somewhere, that sometimes the MUA might separate
 one message into two, but I don't remember the datails.
 Also if this is the case, should I not have the other halves
 somewhere?

No idea what you're talking about.

 
 I'm using procmail to filter mail from mailing lists to their
 own folders, but these messages end up in my spool folder,
 so it's hard to see if there is another 'half' somewhere...

Easiest would be to put in the following lines into you procmailrc :

VERBOSE=on
LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail/log.`date +%m-%y`

and then look through your log files. 

I also take the additional precaution of archiving my mails and their
headers *before* any of the recipes. So, just in case a recipe fails
(you never know), I always have my mails in my archive file.

 Does anybody have any ideas what might be the cause or
 how to investigate?

You could also look through the Message-Id headers to see if it some
weird loop. Though, by the look of it, there doesn't seem to be any.

pv.

-- 
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Re: Empty mails without body or subject

2001-12-12 Thread Cliff Sarginson 

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:30:42AM +0530, Prahlad Vaidyanathan wrote:
 On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 Balazs Javor spewed into the ether:
  Hi,
  
  I'm getting a lot of mails novadays which have no
  subject and no body at all. They all seem to come
  from various mailing list I'm subscribed to, nut mostly
  from debian-users and linux-kernel. Also all of them
  seem to have a bounce address of that list in the From
  headers. e.g bounce-debian-user... or owner-linux-kernel...

This sounds like what is called verp which some mailing list
software uses. It is not likely to be the cause of your problem.

I'll leave it to someone else to explain what verp is.

-- 
Regards
Cliff

Empty mails without body or subject

2001-12-11 Thread Balazs Javor 

Hi,

I'm getting a lot of mails novadays which have no
subject and no body at all. They all seem to come
from various mailing list I'm subscribed to, nut mostly
from debian-users and linux-kernel. Also all of them
seem to have a bounce address of that list in the From
headers. e.g bounce-debian-user... or owner-linux-kernel...

I've read once somewhere, that sometimes the MUA might separate
one message into two, but I don't remember the datails.
Also if this is the case, should I not have the other halves
somewhere?

I'm using procmail to filter mail from mailing lists to their
own folders, but these messages end up in my spool folder,
so it's hard to see if there is another 'half' somewhere...

Does anybody have any ideas what might be the cause or
how to investigate?

Please see attached mbox...

Many thanks in advance!
best regards,
Balazs


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