OT Blank Emails (OE) Question

Hi,
With a fair sprinkling of computer geeks in here I figure it's worth a
shot. :-)
Since January I've gotten 36 emails that have no
"Subject", no "To" or "From" information and no message body either.
In Properties---Details I see something like this:
******************************************
Return-Path:
Received: from [205.152.59.32] ([218.190.131.147])
by imf04aec.mail.bellsouth.net
(InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with
SMTP
id
20040905165123.XLYJ1764.imf04aec.mail.bellsouth.n ];
Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:51:23 -0400
X-Message-Info: V
Message-Id:
20040905165123.XLYJ1764.imf04aec.mail.bellsouth.n ]
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:51:24 -0400
*******************************************
They don't all originate from the above IP address. These are some of
the others:
218.190.131.147
218.59.224.157
64.217.149.166
218.191.130.213
80.37.96.76
24.85.79.207
221.124.232.134
210.222.197.23
211.201.125.108
211.113.213.86
220.190.87.7
218.80.138.220

Lots of the Return-Path emails are Yahoo, but there are also some
Starmate, Flashmail, Awemail, FS1860.net, Sonnet and other ISPs
represented. They aren't "traceable". I suspect they're some sort of
spam that didn't quite turn out right but if someone could direct me
towards a way to stop them using OE's Message Rules or by some sort of
add-on software I'd be grateful.

Thanks and take care,
Carmen

I've gotten a few of those. I've been using K9 to filter out spam, after a
bit of training it does an excellent job. It puts spam into a separate
folder where you can quickly scan the headers to see if there is anything
good that got misclassified. That happens very rarely and I only continue
to do it because I occasionally get mail generated from my website that it
might mistake as spam. It's much quicker to scan it all in a separate
folder than to pick out the bad among the good. Free at www.keir.net

In ,
Carmen stated
| Hi,
| With a fair sprinkling of computer geeks in here I figure it's worth a
| shot. :-)
| Since January I've gotten 36 emails that have no
| "Subject", no "To" or "From" information and no message body either.
| In Properties---Details I see something like this:
| ******************************************
| Return-Path:
| Received: from [205.152.59.32] ([218.190.131.147])
| by imf04aec.mail.bellsouth.net
| (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with
| SMTP
| id
|
|
| 20040905165123.XLYJ1764.imf04aec.mail.bellsouth.n ];
| Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:51:23 -0400
| X-Message-Info: V
| Message-Id:
| 20040905165123.XLYJ1764.imf04aec.mail.bellsouth.n ]
| Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:51:24 -0400
| *******************************************
| They don't all originate from the above IP address. These are some of
| the others:
| 218.190.131.147
| 218.59.224.157
| 64.217.149.166
| 218.191.130.213
| 80.37.96.76
| 24.85.79.207
| 221.124.232.134
| 210.222.197.23
| 211.201.125.108
| 211.113.213.86
| 220.190.87.7
| 218.80.138.220
|
| Lots of the Return-Path emails are Yahoo, but there are also some
| Starmate, Flashmail, Awemail, FS1860.net, Sonnet and other ISPs
| represented. They aren't "traceable". I suspect they're some sort of
| spam that didn't quite turn out right but if someone could direct me
| towards a way to stop them using OE's Message Rules or by some sort of
| add-on software I'd be grateful.
|
| Thanks and take care,
| Carmen

I've gotten a few of those. I've been using K9 to filter out spam, after a
bit of training it does an excellent job. It puts spam into a separate
folder where you can quickly scan the headers to see if there is anything
good that got misclassified. That happens very rarely and I only continue
to do it because I occasionally get mail generated from my website that it
might mistake as spam. It's much quicker to scan it all in a separate
folder than to pick out the bad among the good. Free at www.keir.net

In ,
Carmen stated
| Hi,
| With a fair sprinkling of computer geeks in here I figure it's worth a
| shot. :-)
| Since January I've gotten 36 emails that have no
| "Subject", no "To" or "From" information and no message body either.
| In Properties---Details I see something like this:
| ******************************************
| Return-Path:
| Received: from [205.152.59.32] ([218.190.131.147])
| by imf04aec.mail.bellsouth.net
| (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with
| SMTP
| id
|
|
| 20040905165123.XLYJ1764.imf04aec.mail.bellsouth.n ];
| Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:51:23 -0400
| X-Message-Info: V
| Message-Id:
| 20040905165123.XLYJ1764.imf04aec.mail.bellsouth.n ]
| Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:51:24 -0400
| *******************************************
| They don't all originate from the above IP address. These are some of
| the others:
| 218.190.131.147
| 218.59.224.157
| 64.217.149.166
| 218.191.130.213
| 80.37.96.76
| 24.85.79.207
| 221.124.232.134
| 210.222.197.23
| 211.201.125.108
| 211.113.213.86
| 220.190.87.7
| 218.80.138.220
|
| Lots of the Return-Path emails are Yahoo, but there are also some
| Starmate, Flashmail, Awemail, FS1860.net, Sonnet and other ISPs
| represented. They aren't "traceable". I suspect they're some sort of
| spam that didn't quite turn out right but if someone could direct me
| towards a way to stop them using OE's Message Rules or by some sort of
| add-on software I'd be grateful.
|
| Thanks and take care,
| Carmen

I've gotten a few of those. I've been using K9 to filter out spam, after a
bit of training it does an excellent job. It puts spam into a separate
folder where you can quickly scan the headers to see if there is anything
good that got misclassified. That happens very rarely and I only continue
to do it because I occasionally get mail generated from my website that it
might mistake as spam. It's much quicker to scan it all in a separate
folder than to pick out the bad among the good. Free at www.keir.net

In ,
Carmen stated
| Hi,
| With a fair sprinkling of computer geeks in here I figure it's worth a
| shot. :-)
| Since January I've gotten 36 emails that have no
| "Subject", no "To" or "From" information and no message body either.
| In Properties---Details I see something like this:
| ******************************************
| Return-Path:
| Received: from [205.152.59.32] ([218.190.131.147])
| by imf04aec.mail.bellsouth.net
| (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with
| SMTP
| id
|
|
| 20040905165123.XLYJ1764.imf04aec.mail.bellsouth.n ];
| Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:51:23 -0400
| X-Message-Info: V
| Message-Id:
| 20040905165123.XLYJ1764.imf04aec.mail.bellsouth.n ]
| Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:51:24 -0400
| *******************************************
| They don't all originate from the above IP address. These are some of
| the others:
| 218.190.131.147
| 218.59.224.157
| 64.217.149.166
| 218.191.130.213
| 80.37.96.76
| 24.85.79.207
| 221.124.232.134
| 210.222.197.23
| 211.201.125.108
| 211.113.213.86
| 220.190.87.7
| 218.80.138.220
|
| Lots of the Return-Path emails are Yahoo, but there are also some
| Starmate, Flashmail, Awemail, FS1860.net, Sonnet and other ISPs
| represented. They aren't "traceable". I suspect they're some sort of
| spam that didn't quite turn out right but if someone could direct me
| towards a way to stop them using OE's Message Rules or by some sort of
| add-on software I'd be grateful.
|
| Thanks and take care,
| Carmen

Carmen,
I don't know how you are tracing those emails, but I've been using
senderbase.com to track my website traffic. I plugged in some of the IP's you
listed, and this is what I got, and lots mo

80.37.96.76
TELEFONICA DE ESPANA
person: Antonio Fuentes
address: TELEFONICA DE ESPANA
address: Emilio Vargas, 4
address: 28043-MADRID
address: SPAIN
phone: +34 91 5194446
fax-no: +34 91 5846936

24.85.79.207
OrgName: Shaw Communications Inc.
OrgID: SHAWC
Address: Suite 800
Address: 630 - 3rd Ave. SW
City: Calgary
StateProv: AB
PostalCode: T2P-4L4
Country: CA

221.124.232.134
Hutchison Global Communications
country: HK
person: ITMM HGC
nic-hdl: IH17-AP
e-mail:
remarks: ---------------------
remarks: for spamming/hacking complaints
remarks: send reports to
remarks:

Maybe that will be useful for you.

Carmen,
I don't know how you are tracing those emails, but I've been using
senderbase.com to track my website traffic. I plugged in some of the IP's you
listed, and this is what I got, and lots mo

80.37.96.76
TELEFONICA DE ESPANA
person: Antonio Fuentes
address: TELEFONICA DE ESPANA
address: Emilio Vargas, 4
address: 28043-MADRID
address: SPAIN
phone: +34 91 5194446
fax-no: +34 91 5846936

24.85.79.207
OrgName: Shaw Communications Inc.
OrgID: SHAWC
Address: Suite 800
Address: 630 - 3rd Ave. SW
City: Calgary
StateProv: AB
PostalCode: T2P-4L4
Country: CA

221.124.232.134
Hutchison Global Communications
country: HK
person: ITMM HGC
nic-hdl: IH17-AP
e-mail:
remarks: ---------------------
remarks: for spamming/hacking complaints
remarks: send reports to
remarks:

Maybe that will be useful for you.

Carmen,
I don't know how you are tracing those emails, but I've been using
senderbase.com to track my website traffic. I plugged in some of the IP's you
listed, and this is what I got, and lots mo

80.37.96.76
TELEFONICA DE ESPANA
person: Antonio Fuentes
address: TELEFONICA DE ESPANA
address: Emilio Vargas, 4
address: 28043-MADRID
address: SPAIN
phone: +34 91 5194446
fax-no: +34 91 5846936

24.85.79.207
OrgName: Shaw Communications Inc.
OrgID: SHAWC
Address: Suite 800
Address: 630 - 3rd Ave. SW
City: Calgary
StateProv: AB
PostalCode: T2P-4L4
Country: CA

221.124.232.134
Hutchison Global Communications
country: HK
person: ITMM HGC
nic-hdl: IH17-AP
e-mail:
remarks: ---------------------
remarks: for spamming/hacking complaints
remarks: send reports to
remarks:

Maybe that will be useful for you.

I'm sorry, it is www.senderbase.org

You seem to be getting a lot of international email:

220.190.87.7
CHINANET-ZJ Wenzhou node network

218.80.138.220
CHINANET Shanghai province network

211.113.213.86
ONSE Telecom KR (Korea?)

218.59.224.157 CNCGROUP Shandong province network China

I'm sorry, it is www.senderbase.org

You seem to be getting a lot of international email:

220.190.87.7
CHINANET-ZJ Wenzhou node network

218.80.138.220
CHINANET Shanghai province network

211.113.213.86
ONSE Telecom KR (Korea?)

218.59.224.157 CNCGROUP Shandong province network China

Use something like spamsubtract to block such stuff on the server so it
never gets to your PC. Nothing like this ever even gets downloaded because
if I don't recognize the sender or if the subject line makes no sense to me,
I nuke it. My virus software does a lot less work, too.

www.spamsubtract.com


Carmen wrote:
|| Lots of the Return-Path emails are Yahoo, but there are also some
|| Starmate, Flashmail, Awemail, FS1860.net, Sonnet and other ISPs
|| represented. They aren't "traceable". I suspect they're some sort
|| of
|| spam that didn't quite turn out right but if someone could direct me
|| towards a way to stop them using OE's Message Rules or by some sort
|| of add-on software I'd be grateful.
||
|| Thanks and take care,
|| Carmen