Corrupt email

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Marvin

Where the heck do these come from? They get stuck in my inbox. They are as
bad as spam. Is someone out there sending these all over? Why doesn't my
ISP catch and delete them.

Who is doing this?

Is it caused because I auto check my email eery 10 minutes?


what the heck??

thanks
 
What are you talking about? What are you trying to achieve and where you get
stuck?

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Every day my POP mail account gets "stuck" when downloading from Outlook. I
have to go to my ISP's web mail site and delete the offending "corrupt"
email.

Then, all my emails will download to Outlook. Later in the day, another
corrupt email shows up and I have to do it again.

Where do these corrupt emails come from? Why can't my ISP stop them.
Looking for authoritative answers please.

Thank you!
 
Alright, but you'll have to define "corrupt" to me. Is this a valid message
sent directly to you or is it spam/viruswarning? Does it have an attachment?
What version of Outlook are you using? Did you upgrade or are you on a
clean installation? Are you running spamfilters, virusscanners or other
tools that integrate with Outlook?

To really get to the issue you'll have to provide me a lot more details.

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I don't know what makes the email corrupt. I don't know what is courrupt
about it.
I am using Outlook 2003 upgrade. I am running Norton and its email
protection.

These corrupt emails are always spam with no attachment.

This is a common occurence on the internet. Search for "corrupt email".
You will see that they get stuck in the POP3 mailboxes all over the world.

My question is, why do I get these these corrupt emails and where do they
come from, why can't the ISP stop and delete them.
 
Marvin,
You are going around in circles. You say they are corrupt and then you say
you do not know what that is.
Corrupt can mean
1. Bad file structure (ie part of it is wrong or missing)
2. To some people, that could mean spam, porn or anything illegal or not to
their liking.

To me, it sounds like you have reason 2. If your email address is really
"(e-mail address removed)" then of course you are inviting all kinds of Spam to be
sent to you. Or get your company, Marvin Windows and Doors to block the
mail. However my guess is that is not your real email.

Many ISP's do not have blocking filters, they leave that up to the end user.
You can always go into Outlook and make up some rules to block these and
delete them from the server. If they are actually stopping you from
downloading, ten you need to take that up with your ISP or get another one.

Or ask your ISP if they have something like the "Fixmail" program from
EarthLink, most ISP's have this type application in one form or another.
http://support.earthlink.net/mu/1/psc/img/walkthroughs/Help_FAQ/7691.psc.html

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Redmond, WA
 
Tedd is right on this except for one thing and that is that an Outlook rule
won't work as the message can't be downloaded. Also there is no option to
delete the message from the server by means of a rule.

See if your webbased mailclient allows you to set rules so you can delete
certain messages already at ISP level instead of client level.

Since you also upgraded to Outlook I suggest you recreate your mail profile
and see if that solves anything. To recreate (do not copy) your mail
profiles go to;
Control Panel-> Mail-> button Show Profiles...

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oh please! don't be stupid.

Remember I said - Authoratative answers only please.
Otherwise don;t answer
 
I am not the stupid one here Marvin, you cannot even decide if you have
corrupt email or not.
You might try WebTV, it would be far better for a room temperature IQ person
like you.
"Authoratative", "courrupt"
what making up new words now ? At least I am stupid enough to know how to
turn on a spell checker.
Don't try to be an expert on my talent or anyone else's since you know zero
about me.

One more moron on my block list. Goodbye Idiot !

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Redmond, WA
 
Oh geez, the flamer who butts in with useless answers, carrying only a spell
checker in his arsenal.
Bye butthead. Thanks for your help.
 
I thought I had stumbled into a first time AOL users
group when viewing this post.
Yo Marvin, Do you tell people to f*ck off if they open a
door for you ? or do you give the finger to people that
slow down so you can cross the road ?
Well you sure did that here. This is a peer-peer group,
nobody gets paid, yet you come in here all high and
mighty and asked a question that you yourself posted the
google link for the answer ? And when several people take
their time to try and help you, you turn around and flame
them ?
And what is this crap you post
"Remember I said - Authoratative answers only please" WTF
do you think this is ? PSS support at $225 an hour ? Its
clear to me that ALL the people that answered you are far
more up to speed tben you. Surprised Comcast has not shut
down your account yet.

And in viewing your post "Where do these corrupt emails
come from? Why can't my ISP stop them." And you claim
the people that respond to you are stupid !!! If you are
so smart, you would look at the senders header and get an
idea who is sending them. Why do you get them ? Most get
them from posting their real email address. Duh....
But then you sound like a testerone high teen who has
nothing better to do then to be a troll and give good
people a hard time. Your garbage postings to the SQL
groups makes it clear you have no concept in the computer
world of things.
So grow up little boy, little minds like yours are better
spent building and then destroying Lego toys. The people
on the Usenet do not need to listen to your moronic
comments. Get a Life, but not here, you are not welcome
at all.
-----Original Message-----
Oh geez, the flamer who butts in with useless answers, carrying only a spell
checker in his arsenal.
Bye butthead. Thanks for your help.

Tedd Riggs said:
I am not the stupid one here Marvin, you cannot even decide if you have
corrupt email or not.
You might try WebTV, it would be far better for a room
temperature IQ
person
like you.
"Authoratative", "courrupt"
what making up new words now ? At least I am stupid enough to know how to
turn on a spell checker.
Don't try to be an expert on my talent or anyone
else's since you know
zero
about me.

One more moron on my block list. Goodbye Idiot !

--
Tedd Riggs
PDA Square Content Developer
www.pdasquare.com
Redmond, WA
anything illegal or
not email address is
really all kinds of Spam
to rules to block these
and one form or
another.
tips & tricks in
your can't my ISP stop
them. these all over?
Why

.
 
Another guy who can't help but inject nonsense.
One guy (not you) was smart enough to start to answer the question;
http://support.earthlink.net/mu/1/psc/img/walkthroughs/Help_FAQ/7691.psc.html

It does not tell us what is corrupt about the mails. WE DON'T CARE.
What causes car crashes? Lots of things.

I want to know how if someone is mailing these "corrupt emails" out on
purpose, like a virus or spam and if ISPs can stop them, or if checking
one's email account too often causes these emails to be come corrupt.
I don't really know or care what is corrupt about them. I am not trying to
uncorrupt them.
For some inescent crazy reason, you do, but I don't and earthlink doesn't.
Start your own off-base topic about it if you need to.

I was asked to define what I meant by "corrupt email" which I did with a
link to google

It demonstrates what I mean when I say that "corrupt emails" occur, and
that they can cause messages to get stuck in your inbox.

I'm not talking about Outlook 2003 "corrupt emails", or Antivirus "corrupt
emails", or "my imaginary expertise makes my neuurons fire off and ask
irrelevant questions". No, I am specifically talking about the the kind
of "corrupt emails" that are in this google link.

The messages I get come from spammers, like I said.

At the same time I am trying to keep away the noisy and fruitless spam-like
insults from people like you who have absolutely no answers.

No one needs Lego insults. They are stupid. Yours are poorly written, not at
all web-worthy.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way, but please stop obstructing


I thought I had stumbled into a first time AOL users
group when viewing this post.
Yo Marvin, Do you tell people to f*ck off if they open a
door for you ? or do you give the finger to people that
slow down so you can cross the road ?
Well you sure did that here. This is a peer-peer group,
nobody gets paid, yet you come in here all high and
mighty and asked a question that you yourself posted the
google link for the answer ? And when several people take
their time to try and help you, you turn around and flame
them ?
And what is this crap you post
"Remember I said - Authoratative answers only please" WTF
do you think this is ? PSS support at $225 an hour ? Its
clear to me that ALL the people that answered you are far
more up to speed tben you. Surprised Comcast has not shut
down your account yet.

And in viewing your post "Where do these corrupt emails
come from? Why can't my ISP stop them." And you claim
the people that respond to you are stupid !!! If you are
so smart, you would look at the senders header and get an
idea who is sending them. Why do you get them ? Most get
them from posting their real email address. Duh....
But then you sound like a testerone high teen who has
nothing better to do then to be a troll and give good
people a hard time. Your garbage postings to the SQL
groups makes it clear you have no concept in the computer
world of things.
So grow up little boy, little minds like yours are better
spent building and then destroying Lego toys. The people
on the Usenet do not need to listen to your moronic
comments. Get a Life, but not here, you are not welcome
at all.
-----Original Message-----
Oh geez, the flamer who butts in with useless answers, carrying only a spell
checker in his arsenal.
Bye butthead. Thanks for your help.

Tedd Riggs said:
I am not the stupid one here Marvin, you cannot even decide if you have
corrupt email or not.
You might try WebTV, it would be far better for a room
temperature IQ
person
like you.
"Authoratative", "courrupt"
what making up new words now ? At least I am stupid enough to know how to
turn on a spell checker.
Don't try to be an expert on my talent or anyone
else's since you know
zero
about me.

One more moron on my block list. Goodbye Idiot !

--
Tedd Riggs
PDA Square Content Developer
www.pdasquare.com
Redmond, WA
anything illegal or
not email address is
really all kinds of Spam
to rules to block these
and one form or
another.
tips & tricks in
your can't my ISP stop
them. these all over?
Why

.
 
#1 Why do I get these these corrupt emails;
Some spam-company has got your e-mail address and likes sending to you. The
advise is not to use your common address(es) in public places like these.

#2 Where do they come from;
The Spam-company. You could check the header of the message for more details
but it is very likely they spoofed that so it won't contain anything usefull

#3 Why can't the ISP stop and delete them;
Probably because they are not running appropriate filters which isn't an ISP
requirement (which it should be if you ask me). If it's really bothering you
contact your ISP. If they say they aren't going to do anything about it you
might want to look for the option to change to an ISP which does provide you
the required filters.

Hope I answered all your questions now. One advise; be less flamy ;-)
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