Invisable E-Mail

[zippyjuan]

I have been getting an email without title and it does not show the sender. Just blank lines. The preview shows no body. Strange that it even comes through. I assume it is spam or infected and just delete it. Very odd.

[seqiro]

I was getting a bunch of those a few weeks ago. They manage to slip right past spamassassin and Mail.app's junk mail filter.

I just delete 'em, too.

[verve247]

Getting them too.

[eSDee]

I have my mail server set to bounce any emails without a sender. Are you sure it's not your client? Care to post the headers?

[zippyjuan]

I just got another tonight around 2:00am (worked prety late) and asked to view source. This is what it gives me: (I have altered my email address in this to jimmydean):

Status: U
Return-Path: <>
Received: from CPE0002a5bfb458-CM00080d09ea48.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([70.25.131.199])
by mx-ailes.atl.sa.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id 1eVb379z3Nl36r0
for <[email protected]>; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 05:11:47 -0500 (EST)
From: <>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 05:11:47 -0500 (EST)
X-ELNK-AV: 0


Other than my info, none of this means anything to me. Does it to you? Just curious.

[eSDee]

Hmm nothing really useful in there. I wonder why earthlink wouldn't block that email though. A blank sender filter is one of the first and easiest to install. Maybe they just don't want you to lose any email sent from low-tech relatives who can't configure their email correctly :shrug:

[zippyjuan]

Thanks anyways! I just delete them when I get them. Maybe it is some sort of system test.