I keep getting several emails a day with 'no subject' and 'no content'. I use Roadrunner with MS Outlook. Roadrunner's tech. support was no help at all as to how to stop or block them. Any suggestions other than "Just delete them" will be appreciated. This is one of the headers:
Subject: spam: (no subject)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from edge9.adelphia.net ([88.228.151.67]) by mta4.adelphia.net
(InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP
id <20080608235855.NOXU11932.mta4.adelphia.net@edge9. adelphia.net>;
Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:58:55 -0400
Received: from localhost ([88.228.151.67]) by edge9.adelphia.net
(InterMail vG.2.00.00.02 201-2161-108-103-20050713) with SMTP
id <20080609000006.LHEK2330.edge9.adelphia.net@localh ost>;
Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:00:06 -0400
Message-Id: <200805270[6
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:00:08 -0400
Message-Id: <20080608235855.NOXU11932.mta4.adelphia.net@edge9. adelphia.net>
X-tis-spam: =?us-ascii?B?c2NvcmU9MjIuMzg4MDAgKDE0ODAzMSwxNDgw?=
=?us-ascii?B?MzIsMTQ4MDMzLDE0ODAzNCwxNDgwMzksMTAwMDIsMT AxMTEsMTkw?=
=?us-ascii?B?MTkwLDE5MDE5MSwxOTA5NDUp?=

Why can't you block the sender?

Thanks for the reply. The sender (return-path) is different each time. And the 'received from' is slightly different as well. Like the one above is "Received: from edge9.adelphia.net" sometimes it's edge2 or edge11.

I would just continue to block them until the emails stop.

Thanks again for the help

No prob... And do not open emails from people you don't know... These could be viruses.

Where did the "spam" in the subject line come from? Is Roadrunner doing that? Most emails have a spam blocker -- it's just a matter of how they handle it. If Roadrunner is doing that, then it looks like they mark it as suspected spam, but do not do anything with it. You may be able to use your filters to at least get it to go into a different folder. Filter on the subject, and put in "spam" and then direct it to whatever folder of your choosing, or to the trash folder.

But if that's spam, or virus, or whatever, there isn't anything you can do to stop it, other than have the spam blocking on and filter it somewhere. None of us can actually stop all the crap that gets emailed everywhere.

One thing you can do, though, is have more than one email account. Keep your regular account safer by only giving to people you know (and trust with it not to give it away), or online places you trust or that hide it. (Like this site hides it if you want.) Then you can have another account for places more public or that you don't trust. Sure, you'll get the junk there, but it'll cut back on the crap you get at your regular account.

Tell people that you know that they need to include a subject any time they email you, then set up your filters to delete any incoming email that does not have a subject line. As mentioned by others, even if there is no attached file, some emails can actually link you to malicious coding. Be careful when opening emails like that.

I agree , I get a lot of these as well. I also get ones that have the year as 2220 some stupid year which is far far from now. These are hackers and viruses,Beware,OK.

Make sure you do the simple thing and run a virus checker after opening these emails. Microsoft also has a free spyware checker that you can download if you have an authenticated version of Windows.

Unfortunately it's hard to report email/url abuse when there's no text in the message being sent. The only other way is to find a way to prove that these messages are containing some kind of virus or spyware, but that is difficult, time consuming and usually just aggrevating.

As someone said, open another email account and set it up as default in Outlook. Outlook has a neat feature where every time someone you know emails you at the old address, you can have an automatic reply sent back saying that your email has changed. Any businesses you deal with can be contacted for change of email and then once everyone is switched over you can decide to close the other account or just kept checking it everyonce in a while.