advice on bodyless emails

[Greg Louis]

On 20040128 (Wed) at 2026:48 +0000, Richard Kimber wrote:
> I have recently been plagued with emails that have no subject or body
> similar to the following:
> 
> ================
> >From zuvzffkne at univ-st-etienne.fr  Wed Jan 28 19:43:00 2004
> Return-Path: <zuvzffkne at univ-st-etienne.fr>
> Received: from pop.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.50]
>         by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.4)
>         for psrwebs at localhost (single-drop); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:43:00
> +0000 (GMT)
> Received: from c-65-97-16-13.va.client2.attbi.com ([65.97.16.13])
>           by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com
>           (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with SMTP
>           id
> <20040128194134.TBPQ14639.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com at c-65-97-16-13.va.client2
> .attbi.com>;
>           Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:41:34 +0000
> Message-Id:
> <20040128194134.TBPQ14639.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com at c-65-97-16-13.va.client2
> .attbi.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:41:35 +0000
> X-Sanitizer: This message has been sanitized!
> X-Sanitizer-URL: http://mailtools.anomy.net/
> X-Sanitizer-Rev: $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.81 2003/12/17 12:49:44 bre Exp $
> X-Antivirus: Scanned by F-Prot Antivirus (http://www.f-prot.com/)
> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.414283, version=0.16.3
> 
> =================
> 
> These all seem to originate from different addresses.  What is the best
> way of dealing with them? Teaching Bogofilter that they are spam will
> presumably only work for that particular message.  Would it be better to
> try to filter them out with procmail?  Any suggestions?

Although it wouldn't be safe to dump mail with no subject, mail without
even an empty Subject: header would be, I think, a good candidate for
/dev/null via procmail.

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