Blank Email Body on some Sent Mail - Windows Vista

[katie farias]

When sending or forwarding emails to (3) of my many contact, using Windows
mail and I have Vista as my operating system, in the last month these
contacts who's providers are all three different ISP's have started getting
the following in the body of their emails with nothing else? Has anyone
else experienced this problem... Help?


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[Gary VanderMolen]

That is a very rare symptom. I believe you are only the 9th person to
report this problem in the 16 months I've been active here.
We don't know what the cause is, or how to fix it. You can try
upgrading to Windows Live Mail:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

When sending or forwarding emails to (3) of my many contact, using Windows
mail and I have Vista as my operating system, in the last month these
contacts who's providers are all three different ISP's have started
getting the following in the body of their emails with nothing else? Has
anyone else experienced this problem... Help?


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Try this.
copy this line to Start search area of the Start menu
regsvr32 inetcomm.dll
and press <Enter>.

 

[Larry Becker]

When four of my many contacts send me an email, all using different isp's,
they receive a completely blank email from me and it is not in my sent mail
folder. The time of the email "sent" is the same as the time of receipt of
the email from them. I use Windows Mail and Vista.

 

[Larry Becker]

I copied this line to Start search area of the Start menu

regsvr32 inetcomm.dll
and pressed <Enter>.

I received an error message that "The module 'inetcomm.dll' was loaded but
the entry-point for DllRregisterServer was not found."

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Go to Tools, Options, Receipts. Select "Never send a read receipt".

 

[Larry Becker]

I had my options set to notify me when a read receipt was requested and I did
not receive this notification with these emails. Do you believe this was
still the problem?

In the meantime, I downloaded Windows Live Mail. I ended up with two email
accounts, one Comcast (larrybecker1) (Default Account) and the other
comcast.net. All properties are identical except the server port numbers and
security. The first has default numbers of 25 for SMTP and 110 for POP3
without requiring a secure connection. The second one has 587 for SMTP and
995 for SSL and requires a secure connection. Should I delete the latter
account?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I don't know what was causing the blank replies, if it wasn't some part
of the 'read receipt function. You did well to move on to Windows Live
Mail. As for your two Comcast accounts, it sounds like neither has the
correct settings. Comcast has shifted from port 25 to port 587 for SMTP,
but their POP server is still on port 110 (no SSL), not port 995.
The complete settings are documented here:

http://www.comcast.com/Customers/FAQ/FaqDetails.ashx?Id=2288