John Fleming wrote:
This is a new one for me. Today I've received some mail with "hey john"
in the subject, and the mail otherwise appears blank. It didn't contain
a virus, or it would've been discarded by ClamAV.
Are these familiar to you guys? What's the point of them? Headers of
one below: Thanks! - John
I've been seeing a lot of these over the last two days. In each case
it's "hey LHS-of-address" So I've seen a lot of "hey kelson" and "hey
webmaster". I thought "hey postmaster" was funny, but then I saw "hey
mailer-daemon"
Most of them have been blank, like the one you saw. What's interesting
is that they aren't actually empty -- they're multipart/alternative
messages containing both HTML and plaintext parts -- it's just that
there's no content in either of them.
I did see one that had some text and an attached image, but I didn't pay
much attention to it and discarded it after training Bayes & reporting
to Razor. Nothing really stood out about it, so I don't remember the
topic, and I'm not 100% certain it was one of these and not another
piece of spam that showed up in the search for "Subject: hey"
My guess is that it's just a broken or misconfigured mailer. It's
sending incorrectly, or the spammer forgot to paste in the body of the
message, or something.
--
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
