We have seen this only when the email contained a foreign characterset, such
as KIO8-R or BIG5.  Still don't know why, though.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:04 AM
Subject: [xmail] Blank Emails


> I've noticed lately that I have been receiving blank emails.  They have no
> From:, no Subject and no Content.  From looking at the headers in Outlook,
> the mail was always spam (from a yahoo account that I don't recognize).
>
> I thought it was a filter (virus scanner and/or SpamAssassin) corrupting
the
> file during processing.  That doesn't seem to be the case.
>
> To verify this, I've modified each of my filters to copy the email file to
> there own directory before they do any processing.  I then waited for the
> blank message to show up again...
>
> A new one came in this morning,  both the virus scanner version and spam
> assassin version are exactly the same.  Here's the contents of the file
with
> to To: address modified:
>
> 4.8.215.172:3684;10.1.0.4:25;Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:00:46 -0600
> mail
> S79B3C
> MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> <<MAIL-DATA>>
> Received: from wbar2.lax1-4-8-215-172.dsl-verizon.net (4.8.215.172:3684)
>         by mail with [XMail 1.17 (Linux/Ix86) ESMTP Server]
>         id <S79B3C> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
>         Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:00:46 -0600
> Received: from 120.244.122.0 by 4.8.215.172; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:56:45
+0300
> Message-ID: <B[20
>
>
> This doesn't appear to be a valid email - there is no blank line after the
> Message-ID line, that's where it ends.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -Don
> --
> Donald Drake
>
> President
> Drake Consulting
> http://www.drakeconsult.com/
> 312-560-1574
>
>
>
>
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