[Gllug] OT unable to delete a spam item

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Thu Dec 6 11:33:44 UTC 2007


> Some years ago, an email arrived with no 'subject', no
> 'from' (except '-') and nothing at all in the main body.
> The sender's email address was forged, and the anti-virus
> program found nothing untoward. There were no attachments.
[snip]
> Has anyone seen anything similar to this, or can anyone
> suggest how to get rid of the pesky varmint? It doesn't
> seem to do anything other than annoy me when I go into W2000.

Is the box running a POP or IMAP server?  They commonly store their
settings in a dummy e-mail and I've seen MUAs which don't know about this
try to display said e-mail as if it were a real one.

John

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