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What's up with the smiley spam I've been seeing lately? Anyone else run into emails where the subject contains only a smiley
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Subject: :) [smiley spam]
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
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I've gotten a few of those, but I didn't notice that the body was empty. For a while, I was getting a fair number of no subject/no body emails, but those seem to have stopped. The only thing that I can figure out is that they are address-validation probes. There does not seem to be any other point. Unless the spamming software has a bug in it. :-)
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Here's the headers from one this morning:
Received: from mjtygpd.telecomitalia.it (host137-251-dynamic.2-87-r.retail.telecomitalia.it [87.2.251.137]) :)
by ourdomain.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 38C0F812
for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:46:17 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:47:23 +0000
From: "Grybel Kaufmann"
X-Mailer: The Bat! (3.0.1.33) Professional
Reply-To: Grybel Kaufmann
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Message-ID:
To:
Subject:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----------28D948A6B14EB0"
Return-Path: wayworn@perfumania.com
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Jul 2008 09:49:21.0093 (UTC) FILETIME=[3A018D7B:1832B6A9]
------------28D948A6B14EB0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
------------28D948A6B14EB0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
------------28D948A6B14EB0--
And the body:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html> <head> <title> </title>
Come to think of it, I only just noticed that it stops at </title> so I'm thinking your "bug in the spam software" theory is a likely candidate. :)
On a side note, I'm very tempted to block "X-Mailer: The Bat! ..." entirely, but there are apparently a few legitimate users who actually use that program.