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 > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
