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Many of my emails are arriving "blank" - I see the icon of an envelope and
the date and time that it arrived, - but nothing else. I have been deleting
these emails, but I'm wondering now if there might be a legitimate reason
that I'm not seeing this info. I don't want to delete real messages - but I
also don't want to get a virus.

Does anybody know what causes this??
 
Wendy said:
Many of my emails are arriving "blank" - I see the icon of an
envelope and the date and time that it arrived, - but nothing else.
I have been deleting these emails, but I'm wondering now if there
might be a legitimate reason that I'm not seeing this info. I don't
want to delete real messages - but I also don't want to get a virus.
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A great many people have been inundated by this type of mail recently. It's
not legitmate. You can delete it.
 
Thanks for your response. Additionally, I sent an email to all of my
personal contacts, explaining the problem - to let them know if any of their
emails arrive in that manner - that I would delete them. A couple of my
friends stopped by last night and told me that the message I sent had all
kinds of wierd symbols inserted into the text. I have run a full computer
scan, using norton - no viruses show up. Any ideas on how to proceed???
 
Wendy said:
Thanks for your response. Additionally, I sent an email to all of my
personal contacts, explaining the problem - to let them know if any
of their emails arrive in that manner - that I would delete them. A
couple of my friends stopped by last night and told me that the
message I sent had all kinds of wierd symbols inserted into the text.
I have run a full computer scan, using norton - no viruses show up.
Any ideas on how to proceed???
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In what format did you send this message?
 
I'm not absolutely sure, but I think I sent it in rich text, because I was
messing around with the fonts - trying to find the Western something or other
font that some of the people had indicated might help the problem (if you
only accept emails in this particular format) - Of course, being the fairly
ignorant person that I am, I don't even know what rich text is. I'm back to
HTML -
 
Wendy said:
I'm not absolutely sure, but I think I sent it in rich text, because
I was messing around with the fonts - trying to find the Western
something or other font that some of the people had indicated might
help the problem (if you only accept emails in this particular
format) - Of course, being the fairly ignorant person that I am, I
don't even know what rich text is. I'm back to HTML -
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Rich Text is a format only other Outlook users can view.
 
Hi Wendy & Brian
I regularly receive e-mails with no subject or to/from etc (about 4/month
out of 100) and after months of investigation (the internet headers are
always corrupted/overwritten) found that they are always genuine messages
from members of address groups I am in. Most other members of the groups
receive the messages uncorrupted. The messages that arrive corrupted are
always characterised by having around 40 addressees AND being 100k or longer
text+attachments. (Messages are OK unless both conditions satisfied.) Looks
like a buffer overflow somewhere is overwriting the header area, and the
front end of the message body is also lost (including its mime headers, if
any). It's Outlook 2003 SP1 and XP pro 2002 SP2, and PIPEX ISP. Happens
with both Cloudmark and McAfee antispams.
Cheers Bob
 
Bob,
I receive legitimate emails from one particular group that arrive with no
"From" or "Subject," and the readable part of the message seems to start in
the middle of the message. The rest of the message is in some sort of code
(html?), and seems to contain the beginning part of the real message. I use
McAfee. Do you know what I need to do to fix this?
Thanks,
Terry
 
Terry
I found it it is almost certainly caused by some e-mail accounts not always
coping with a common, and only technical, error, that incoming e-mails have
"To:" lines longer than 1022 characters. This equates to about 20 e-mail
addresses being in the addressee list. I think it only affects "POP3" e-mail
accounts (ones in which the mailbox resides on the PC and not on the server).
The official solution seems to be for the group to use a mail list server (a
virtual mailbox that simply relays all incoming messages from any member, to
all members of the goup). Failing that, we just have to ask members of the
group to keep address lists shorter than 022 characters, perhaps by splitting
the list into a "To:" subset and a "CC:" subset, or sending the message
separately to subgroups. There is a Microsoft info page on the problem, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821733/
I haven't been able to convince my groups to do anything as only a few of us
have a problem.
Best of luck.
Cheers Bob
 
Hi Guys,

I appreciate your information regarding POP3 accounts.

I have this issue - using outlook in Vista to receive HOTMAIL POP3. Outlook
appears to strip the information, as when I log directly into hotmail.com it
shows all emails received in the inbox correctly. The emails are legitimate
and not bogus.

I am receiving the emails from servers sending to multiple addresses (ie job
vacancy boards and other forums etc)... so it's a real PITA.

Is there a patch anyone is aware of for this?

Stu
 
I appreciate your information regarding POP3 accounts.

I have this issue - using outlook in Vista to receive HOTMAIL POP3. Outlook
appears to strip the information, as when I log directly into hotmail.com it
shows all emails received in the inbox correctly. The emails are legitimate
and not bogus.

I am receiving the emails from servers sending to multiple addresses (ie job
vacancy boards and other forums etc)... so it's a real PITA.
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Often the result of scanning incoming messages with an antivirus scanner.
Uninistall it and reinstall it without the mail scanning feature.
 
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