[X4U] Very Odd Blank emails

[..lj]

Are sure that its not the script thats causing it? I saw that once  
before.
..lj

On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:39, Jim Eddy wrote:

> I've recently noticed that I'm getting blank emails--no subject  
> line, no body text, and occasionally no sender listed. I'd been  
> getting a few of them off and on for a while, so when someone  
> (perhaps on this list?) suggested an applescript that puts blank  
> emails directly into the trash. I'm using Apple Mail under 10.3.9.  
> The script seems to work, until I noticed that I had several  
> thousand blank emails in my trash.
> So today, I did a bit of testing and found that the emails come in  
> groups of 42, and these groups come in each time I check email,  
> whether it be 2 seconds or 10 minutes. The individual messages in  
> each group are different from each other (although one sender is  
> repeated 5 times, with different time stamps), but each group of 42  
> is exactly the same as the other groups. The messages are also  
> spread through the 3 accounts I use.
> I assume that it's caused by a virus somewhere, but where? on my  
> machine, or somewhere else? They go harmlessly (I think!) into the  
> trash, and I don't have other problems that I know of from this.  
> Anything to do? It's all very odd.
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