Hello. I'm boring

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I have a non-office app that sends out a weekly email newsletter to a defined
set of employees. We use Outlook 2007 for our mail system.

I have my In box set up to display From, Subject, and Message.

The body of this email starts 'FYI - ' and this is what normally shows up in
the 'Message' column of my in box.

The message delivered today displays 'Hello. I'm boring'. The actual
message content has not changed and does not contain these words anywhere.

I've done a google search and also in this forum - no hits.

Any idea what's going on?

I've put a call into my IT staff. If I hear anything, I'll post back here.

TIA

Doug

ps - yes, I am boring and the message is boring but the content is helpful ;-)
 
I have a non-office app that sends out a weekly email newsletter to a
defined set of employees. We use Outlook 2007 for our mail system.

I have my In box set up to display From, Subject, and Message.

The body of this email starts 'FYI - ' and this is what normally
shows up in the 'Message' column of my in box.

The message delivered today displays 'Hello. I'm boring'. The actual
message content has not changed and does not contain these words
anywhere.

I've done a google search and also in this forum - no hits.

Any idea what's going on?

I've put a call into my IT staff. If I hear anything, I'll post back
here.

TIA

Doug

ps - yes, I am boring and the message is boring but the content is
helpful ;-)
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I guess supplying the name of the mail program would have been out of
the question. Simply because it might help to debug your problem is
certainly no reason for its inclusion into this post.

1) Have you actually, physically verified the document that was sent?
Not the one you received but the one your application sent?

2) Can you access the logs that were created by this unnamed mail
program and see if it sent the correct document?

3) Is this a BCC (ugh) mailing or is each recipient sent a personalized
version of the document?

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Does the title "I'm boring" apprear that way for just you or all the
recipients?
If its just you- Scan your machine for malware.
If everyone receives the message with the tiltle altered, then scan the
machine that sends it out. There seems to be a large amount of malware
lately causing mail clients a lot headaches.
 
I have a non-office app that sends out a weekly email newsletter to a defined
set of employees. We use Outlook 2007 for our mail system.

I have my In box set up to display From, Subject, and Message.

The body of this email starts 'FYI - ' and this is what normally shows up in
the 'Message' column of my in box.

The message delivered today displays 'Hello. I'm boring'. The actual
message content has not changed and does not contain these words anywhere.
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The non-office app is composing a two part MIME-encoded message. The one of
the parts is the HTML part that you and everyone else sees when they open the
message to read it. The other part is the text part. Typically, the text
part is a text-pnly duplicate of the HTML part, and most mail client programs
will create messages that way. There's nothing in the MIME message standard
that requires the HTML part and the text-only part to contain the same text,
however. The Message field you added shows a portion of the text-only part
and it is that part that contains the "I'm boring" text and it appears to be
generated by the non-office app you're using. That's where I'd be
investigating.
 
Sorry for the delay responding. Let me address some of the suggestions

First, the app generating the mail isn't relevant but for what it's worth, its a Notes db. What I should have included is that I built the app and the message body does NOT include the string 'I'm boring'; never did, never will. The system generating the email tosses out plain text, no html is used

Second, the message field is not typically displayed in user's inboxes; I checked about 6 people and they just display date, from, subject. I did turn on the message field for one user and the message body was correct

Older messages sent from the same app to me that I've saved show the correct message in the folder their filed into

IT had me build a new mail profile today and that corrected the problem

I'd love to know how a corrupted profile could cause this problem
 
Sorry for the delay responding (frankly, I lost track of where I'd posted
this and trying to re-find the submission point has taken some time). Let me
address some of the suggestions.

First, the app generating the mail isn't relevant but for what it's worth,
its a Notes db. What I should have included is that I built the app and the
message body does NOT include the string 'I'm boring'; never did, never will.
The system generating the email tosses out plain text, no html is used.

Second, the message field is not typically displayed in user's inboxes; I
checked about 6 people and they just display date, from, subject. I did turn
on the message field for one user and the message body was correct.

Older messages sent from the same app to me that I've saved show the correct
message in the folder their filed into.

IT had me build a new mail profile today and that corrected the problem.

I'd love to know how a corrupted profile could cause this problem
 
I guess supplying the name of the mail program would have been out of
the question. Simply because it might help to debug your problem is
certainly no reason for its inclusion into this post.
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Snark aside, it doesn't matter for the purposes of this post but it's Notes
app, I wrote the code and know exactly what the content of the message is.
Older receipts of the same message (it's sent weekly) display the correct
message when they hit my inbox.
1) Have you actually, physically verified the document that was sent?
Not the one you received but the one your application sent?
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Yes - I've confirmed it was delivered to everyone.
2) Can you access the logs that were created by this unnamed mail
program and see if it sent the correct document?
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Wouldn't even know how to do that - the server logs show when mail is
transferred out to the SMTP gateway and who the recipents are but not the
content of the message. We don't use any kind of snooper software on the
Domino box (that lives on the Exchange server).
3) Is this a BCC (ugh) mailing or is each recipient sent a personalized
version of the document?
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The recipients are in SendTo no BCC and we don't use a shared mail store.

As I indicate in another response below, the problem turned out to be a
corrupt Mail profile; I created a new one today and 'poof' the message text
is correctly displayed in my inbox view.
I don't have a terribly large mail db (currently running about 100 megs
which is well within normal bounds).

Thanks for the suggestions. If you have any clue why a corrupt profile
would cause such a specific problem, I'd love to know.

Doug

FWIW, our pcs live inside a very robust firewall, we all have up to data
anti-virus code running, our email is cleansed by MailMarshall before it's
delivered, I don't user the preview pane, we have to access the web by
logging onto a terminal server, and I don't download anything I don't virus
scan before I launch it, and I don't bring in files from home via thumb
drives. My system is as clean as a whistle.
 
IT had me build a new mail profile today and that corrected the problem.

I'd love to know how a corrupted profile could cause this problem
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I also.
 
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