Re: blank spam

On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:23:36 -0800, die spammer wrote:

> is it me or is anyone else getting blank spam created by mailenium? is 
> it the same person sending the watch ad spam.
> 
> It seems that Mailenium is an email encryption add-on.

Maillenium is not an encryption add-on; it is just the Comcast mail server
software. Neither does not "create" email, it just processes it; same as
any other MTA. Here is the banner I get when I open a Telnet session to
smtp.comcast.net on port 25:

|220 comcast.net - Maillennium ESMTP/MULTIBOX sccrmhc12 #43

When you see the Comcast header lines about non-compliance with RFC 821,
and adding a date, that is just the MTA telling you how it handled a
particular problem it found with an incoming email.

As for the blank message; that is a common problem with a particular
version of spamware. It affects the sent message, not the received message;
different MTAs will handle the oddity according to their local processing
rules. Yahoo! Mail MTAs handle it well, adding the SpamGuard Bulk
notification in the headers. Here is my latest example:

http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z822480694z8148e83a82668f76712a5bb10dd6e8c6z

Note the SpamGuard header line, "X-YahooFilteredBulk: 61.125.107.28", which
would cause this to be placed in the Yahoo! Bulk folder. I have this
particular SBC sub account set to forward email to my local MTA, though.

Also note the truncation of the MID$; that is the sign that this particular
version of this spamware is broken. All header lines after the broken MID$
were added by the aosake.net MTA. I have seen one good example of this as
received at a Comcast email account; same sign of brokenness. A lot of
Comcast users are complaining because the Comcast spam filters, apparently,
can't handle these as well as Yahoo! Mail's SpamGuard does.

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