Re: Empty emails?

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr () eclipsed net>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:40:51PM -0700, James Lay wrote:
> What's interesting is that the To: undisclosed-recipients:; line is tagged
> only by my exchange server.  It looks like just as some people have
> said...looks like it's spammers trying to verify the email address.  But
> they send via BCC...with BCC there simply isn't a To: line (least not the
> ones I tested).  I've looked at blocking via postfix, but no go.  What I MAY
> be able to do is use anomy tools to do a double-check..IE:

Huh?

You think that spammers actually fill out the fields you're used to
seeing in a MUA? Those are cute and all, but they've got nothing to
do with SMTP.

They're just doing this:

MAIL FROM: <BS>
RCPT TO: <your@email.address>
DATA

.

Why bother being polite and sending headers for the MUA to read if
you're spamming anyway?

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr () eclipsed net

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