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On Apr 13, 2009, at 3:49 AM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12-Apr-2009, at 20:23, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>> On Apr 12, 2009, at 6:30 PM, LuKreme wrote:
>>> On 12-Apr-2009, at 11:12, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>>>> I get a fair number of these emails:
>>>>
>>>> Mail (MobileMe) and empty FROM empty Subject empty BODY
>>>
>>> Check the Raw Source.  They are spam messages where the line feeds
>>> have been eaten.
>>>
>>>> as does my wife, and a few others I know on MobileMe -
>>>> do others get see these going around?
>>>> why would MM's spamcop (or whatever they use) deliver this and not
>>>> block it as junk ?
>>>
>>> For the same reason SpamAssassin fails on these, it doesn't see it  
>>> as
>>> a message as it has no valid headers and no valid body.
>>
>> I've tried to set Mail's junk to catch it, but I haven't been
>> successful quite yet
>
> It will never catch it. Here's one I got today:
>
> Received: (qmail 27496 invoked from network); Mon,
> 13 Apr 2009 10:27:59 +0900Received: from unknown (HELO hrodlk)
> (216.188.216.120)    by wergvan with SMTP; Mon,
> 13 Apr 2009 10:27:59 +0900Message-ID:
> <002b01c9bbd7$14dfbde0$d8bcd...@localhosthrodlk>From: "Antoinette
> Sargent"
> <[email protected]>To: <*[email protected]>Subject: Wanna be a MachoMan?
> Date:
> Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:27:59 +0900MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/
> plain;
>    format=flowed;    charset="iso-8859-1";
>    reply-type=originalContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitX-Priority:
> 3X-MSMail-Priority: NormalX-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express
> 6.00.2900.2180X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE
> V6.00.2900.2180Bringing
> you the highest quality at the most competitive prices.
> http: //ljhgem.[***]druginfo.at/
>
> See how the Message-ID is attached to the previous line?  How the From
> is also? And the Subject, Date, etc?
>
> The filters rely on the information in these headers, and since these
> headers are 'not there' the information can never be parsed, and
> nothing about the message will be learned.
>
> I only see these going to .mac/MobileMe, so I suspect that something
> in MobileMe's mailservers is seeing these as spam and munging them
> badly (less likely), or that the messages are being submitted with
> Windows style EOLs assuming that the mailserver will parse them (more
> likely).
>
> This specific message originated from 124.80.99.17 (in the headers I
> didn't paste) and that address is listed in blacklists.
>
> $ dig 17.99.80.124.zen.spamhaus.org +short
> 127.0.0.11
>
> I don't see messages like this on my own mailserver, but then I
> wouldn't as I reject address listen in zen.
>
> But don't bother trying to train the Junk Filters for those messages,
> there's nothing in the headers for it to train on, just delete them.
>
>
> -- 
> Can I tell you the truth? I mean this isn't like TV news, is it?
>
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