spam without subject line and no message

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Govert J. Knopper

Started receiving many of these messages each day at my company's address.
No subject line, empty message. Fake sender; fake recipient
(fakename@ourdomainname). X-recipient is the postmaster address in our
domain.

Any ideas on the deeper meaning of this "spam"? At first sight it is
useless to the spammer(s). Could they be testing something? I haven't found
a way yet to block this.

Thanks, Govert
 
In Message-ID:<[email protected]> posted on
Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:48:27 +0200, "Govert J. Knopper" <gkn at
nospamdereumaux dot com> wrote: Begin
I haven't found
a way yet to block this.
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Mailwasher filter for [does not contain regexp .]
IOW: If the field you want to filter (subject, from, sender etc.) does
not contain any character (blank) you mark it for deletion or whatever.
 
Govert J. Knopper said in
Started receiving many of these messages each day at my company's
address. No subject line, empty message. Fake sender; fake recipient
(fakename@ourdomainname). X-recipient is the postmaster address in our
domain.

Any ideas on the deeper meaning of this "spam"? At first sight it is
useless to the spammer(s). Could they be testing something? I haven't
found a way yet to block this.

Thanks, Govert
Click to expand...

Maybe they just want to flood your mail server or client. Define a rule to reject/delete messages with blank subject headers.
 
Bart Bailey said:
In Message-ID:<[email protected]> posted on
Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:48:27 +0200, "Govert J. Knopper" <gkn at
nospamdereumaux dot com> wrote: Begin
I haven't found
a way yet to block this.
Click to expand...

Mailwasher filter for [does not contain regexp .]
IOW: If the field you want to filter (subject, from, sender etc.) does
not contain any character (blank) you mark it for deletion or whatever.
Click to expand...

I am a happy user of Mailwasher at home, but it is not an option here at
work. Must be something at the e-mailserver end. We are using Ubeblock but
that doesn't recognize these empty messages.
 
"*Vanguard*" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht
Govert J. Knopper said in
Started receiving many of these messages each day at my company's
address. No subject line, empty message. Fake sender; fake recipient
(fakename@ourdomainname). X-recipient is the postmaster address in our
domain.

Any ideas on the deeper meaning of this "spam"? At first sight it is
useless to the spammer(s). Could they be testing something? I haven't
found a way yet to block this.

Thanks, Govert
Click to expand...

Maybe they just want to flood your mail server or client. Define a rule to
reject/delete messages with blank subject headers.

Thanks. I don't see any option to arrange this in the current filter, but
I'll ask the supplier.
 
from the said:
Started receiving many of these messages each day at my company's address.
No subject line, empty message. Fake sender; fake recipient
(fakename@ourdomainname). X-recipient is the postmaster address in our
domain.

Any ideas on the deeper meaning of this "spam"? At first sight it is
useless to the spammer(s). Could they be testing something?
Click to expand...

Either that, or their program is broken. Not unheard of.
I haven't found
a way yet to block this.
Click to expand...

My ISP blocks all that cr&p for me. if yours doesn't, get a new ISP.
 
Govert J. Knopper said:
Started receiving many of these messages each day at my company's address.
No subject line, empty message. Fake sender; fake recipient
(fakename@ourdomainname). X-recipient is the postmaster address in our
domain.

Any ideas on the deeper meaning of this "spam"? At first sight it is
useless to the spammer(s). Could they be testing something? I haven't found
a way yet to block this.

Thanks, Govert
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I am also receiving these email.
Does anyone have further information re the purpose?
Is it a method of confirming valid e mail addresses?
 
Govert J. Knopper said:
Thanks. I don't see any option to arrange this in the current filter,
but I'll ask the supplier.
Click to expand...

What filter are you using? A proxy? An e-mail client's rules?
 
FTGate mailserver and Ubeblock filter. I have already checked with
Floosietek and there is no option to block this type of "empty spam"

Govert

"*Vanguard*" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht
Govert J. Knopper said:
Thanks. I don't see any option to arrange this in the current filter,
but I'll ask the supplier.
Click to expand...

What filter are you using? A proxy? An e-mail client's rules?
 
Govert J. Knopper said:
FTGate mailserver and Ubeblock filter. I have already checked with
Floosietek and there is no option to block this type of "empty spam"

Govert

"*Vanguard*" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht


What filter are you using? A proxy? An e-mail client's rules?
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The don't let you define your own rules? If so, think of it reverse.
Delete all incoming emails except those with at least one alphanumeric
character in the Subject header. In Outlook, the rule would look like:

Apply this rule when the message arrives
Delete the message
Except if the Suject has "a" or "b" or ... or "z" or "0" or "1" or ...
"9"

Basically you delete/reject the msssage unless there is at least one
character in the Subject. You test for "a" thru "z" (and optionally for
"0" through "9"). A blank Subject won't have any so the message gets
deleted. A message like "$%%,&*!!!" is not likely anything anyone wants
to get so it, too, will get deleted.
 
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