On 12 March 2002, Charlie Watts said:
> I'm seeing more and more of a strange phenomenon - spam with no body.

I've recently seen a number of similar messages saying something like
"Hi" or nothing at all. Since I have a domain where I can see messages
sent to different wrong addresses that have been put on spam lists I
have noticed the same message sent to different addresses. It is made to
look like some simple mistake but is obviously broadcast. My guess is
that it is a way of testing for valid email addresses for a validated
spam address list. The reply path address has always been something
suspicious like ns.something_or_other.com, i.e., a DNS that must be
configured badly to be running a mail server that can be compromised.

What would be nice would be a way to identify these early and refuse the
connection, but that's outside the scope of SA.

 -- sidney



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