On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Charlie Watts wrote:

> > > Does anybody get legit mail with no body?
> >
> > Yep, and I send a lot too (just mailing each other files in the office
> > would be one example, and my mail hits the smtp server due to the way it's
> > setup here (I refuse to use Outlook)).
>
> No, those have bodies. They just happen to be MIME chunks, possibly not
> containing a text/plain "body". I mean that after the blank header/body
> delimiter line, there's just -nothing-.  Sometimes it is whitespace, but
> sometimes -nothing-. Void, Nil, Null, Absense, Naught. Nullity. Zero.

I see, gotcha. Wierdness.

> I do send mail through our pager system that is subject-only, but that
> would be easy enough for me to whitelist if I did set up a check like
> this.

Yeah, we do stuff like tower "ping" tests to see if they're still live, I
think some of them are just subject emails. Cron-type stuff (which on
broken crons gets marked as spam fairly badly because of no Date header).
Though I'm still for making a test for it.

-- 
Matt.
<:->get a SMart net</:->


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