[_] Blank Emails
Oliver Humpage
oliver at watershed.co.uk
Tue Aug 1 09:16:34 BST 2006
On 1/8/06 9:11 am, "Stewart Smith" <stewart.smith at novate-it.co.uk> wrote:
> Is anyone else receiving completely blank emails occassionally? Nothing in
> To, From, CC, Subject, or Body text.
Almost certainly spam sent by people using "easy-to-use" spamming software
that they haven't bothered to read the instructions for. I get plenty
addressed to things like "To: %%emailRecipient%%".
They get through because the envelope is set right, just not the email. You
can think of it like a letter: the mail server, when it receives a letter
for you, takes the letter out of the envelope and pops it into your Inbox
(then discards the envelope). If the letter's blank due to the sender's
incompetence, then so be it.
Oliver.
> Is anyone else receiving completely blank emails occassionally? Nothing in
> To, From, CC, Subject, or Body text.
Almost certainly spam sent by people using "easy-to-use" spamming software
that they haven't bothered to read the instructions for. I get plenty
addressed to things like "To: %%emailRecipient%%".
They get through because the envelope is set right, just not the email. You
can think of it like a letter: the mail server, when it receives a letter
for you, takes the letter out of the envelope and pops it into your Inbox
(then discards the envelope). If the letter's blank due to the sender's
incompetence, then so be it.
Oliver.