[X4U] Very Odd Blank emails

[Scott McCulloch]

I get some odd blank emails also (though not nearly as regularly nor  
nearly as many at once) - I've always assumed they're either spambots  
trolling to see what email addresses are valid, or have virii  
embedded (that fortunately don't affect those of us on Macs).

Not sure about what you're seeing though. What happens if you disable  
the script? Do you still get as many? How are your settings in terms  
of deleting from the server? (assuming you're using POP rather than  
IMAP).

Scott

On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:39 AM, 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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