Way OT: Blank emails without headers

[heather james]

I have the same sort of feature reading this in GMail - a browser
based webmail package.
Just click "More Options" and it reveals all that hidden header info
on the blank emails ...

Heather

On 1/2/06, BiL Castine <bil.castine at gmail.com> wrote:
> i suspect the headers are there, but your mail client won't display
> them fully. i'm using the (geeky) eudora, which has a button labeled
> "blah blah blah" that displays the entire message as it comes down
> from the server.
>
> every time i decide that maybe i should switch to a different mail
> client, something happens that convinces me otherwise. this is one of
> those moments.
>
> -b.
>
> At 8:34 PM -0800 1/1/06, Chuck Coleman wrote:
> >The stuff I get has no headers. Nothing to track or look up.
> >
> >Chuck
> >
> >On Jan 1, 2006, at 2:14 PM, BiL Castine wrote:
> >
> >>further investigation of the very sparse header block on one of
> >>these messages revealed an IP 83.33.238.29 which gave inconclusive
> >>but interesting results when plugged into DNSstuff.com's spam
> >>database lookup tool:
> >>http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=83.33.238.29
> >>
> >>a whois lookup on the same IP yeilded:
> >>http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=83.33.238.29
> >>which is part of the IP pool for a Spanish ISP
> >>
> >>another blank mail i found in my junk mailbox was linked to IP
> >>86.144.24.216, which is part of the pool owned by british telecom
> >>broadband
> >>
> >>a third, 151.198.133.136, linked to a verizon DSL client in New Jersey
> >>
> >>given these results, i would guess that these are spawned by
> >>infected PCs and a means of pinging other infected computers. tho
> >>in my case all 3 messages were sent to my mac.com address. seeing
> >>as how each message came to the same mailbox. either my mac.com
> >>email address is listed in some kind of database, or mac.com isn't
> >>filtering these out at the server level.
> >>
> >>i cant see any imfo encoded in the header that  would be useful to
> >>anyone or anything, tho i suppose there could be something in
> >>non-printing characters that i haven't discovered yet...
> >>
> >>-b.
> >>
> >>
> >>At 4:54 PM -0500 1/1/06, BiL Castine wrote:
> >>>chuck,
> >>>
> >>>i have no answers to your questions, but i get tons of them too.
> >>>
> >>>-b.
> >>>
> >>>At 1:15 PM -0800 1/1/06, Chuck Coleman wrote:
> >>>>Forgive me for being so far OT but I have asked this question to
> >>>>many others and no one seems to be able to give me a satisfactory
> >>>>answer.
> >>>>
> >>>>I have been getting emails lately and with ever increasing
> >>>>frequency that have no subject, body, date, attachments and no
> >>>>headers. I can't track these back to anyone as there is no data
> >>>>to track.
> >>>>
> >>>>Where do these come from and how do they get to me if there is no address?
> >>>>
> >>>>Being the paranoid type I am sure that there is some devious
> >>>>reason that I am getting these. I figure it is a way to check for
> >>>>good emails and that is all I can conclude.
> >>>>
> >>>>There are no web bugs attached so they can't use it to verify
> >>>>that it has been read.
> >>>>
> >>>>Chuck
>
>


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