[X4U] Very Odd Blank emails
Craig A. Finseth
fin at finseth.com
Thu Jul 13 12:53:24 PDT 2006
> 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
...
Most blank mail messages are probes to determine whether an email
address is valid. (Same goes for messages with a sentence or three of
random text.)
They're sent from zombies, so replying is pointless. There's a
0.0...1% chance that adding the sending IP to your blacklist will
help: any actual spam to you will almost certainly be sent from a
different zombie.
Discard and move on with life.
Craig
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