[X4U] blank emails

[PJ Bearstein]

On Oct 16, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Linda wrote:

> On 10/16/05 12:37 PM, Richard Clark wrote:
>
>> I have had this happen a few times and was wondering if anyone knows
>> the cause or what is actually going on, the problem is every once in
>> awhile i receive an Email using OS X mail and it is completely blank,
>> no subject, nothing saying where it is coming from, just the time
>> when it arrived. Does anyone know what this is.
>
> I get the same thing in Entourage, so it's not a Mail problem. I think 
> that
> they are simply "reconnaissance" emails, designed to locate 
> non-bouncing
> email addresses for compilation into a salable list. You can of course 
> view
> the long headers and then forward them to the postmaster (or abuse@) 
> of the
> originating domain.

Providing the domain exists in the first place.


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