Blank emails coming in

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Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone else has seen emails coming in to Outlook Express
that are blank;

1) no sender
2) no subject
3) no message content

If so, do we know how they are being generated and how to stop these?

Thanks in Advance !
 
Please consult the experts in the Outlook Express newsgroup:
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| Hi everyone,
|
| I was wondering if anyone else has seen emails coming in to Outlook Express
| that are blank;
|
| 1) no sender
| 2) no subject
| 3) no message content
|
| If so, do we know how they are being generated and how to stop these?
|
| Thanks in Advance !
| --
| Looking for Answers.
 
Harley_dude_canada said:
Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone else has seen emails coming in to Outlook
Express that are blank;

1) no sender
2) no subject
3) no message content

If so, do we know how they are being generated and how to stop these?

Thanks in Advance !
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This is common. The emails are either spam or generated by a
virus-infected pc that has your email address in its addressbook. Just
delete them unopened. You can use message rules to filter them out,
either at your ISP (if your ISP offers that) or in OE. For questions
about setting up message rules or anything else regarding OE, post to
an OE newsgroup. Also, here's the definitive site for information about
OE:

http://www.insideoe.com
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

Malke
 
Thanks for the redirection, but it doesn't appear to be an Outlook Express
Issue.

Any thoughts? IS it IE or windows xp ?
 
You should never end a rule with a file move or delete Bob. Always include "And
stop processing more rules" in these cases.

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| Tools, Rules, Sender is "", Delete
|
| Harley_dude_canada wrote:
|
| > Hi everyone,
| >
| > I was wondering if anyone else has seen emails coming in to Outlook Express
| > that are blank;
| >
| > 1) no sender
| > 2) no subject
| > 3) no message content
| >
| > If so, do we know how they are being generated and how to stop these?
| >
| > Thanks in Advance !
|
 
Harley_dude_canada said:
Thanks for the redirection, but it doesn't appear to be an Outlook Express
Issue.

Any thoughts? IS it IE or windows xp ?
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Neither. It's the person who sent the mails. They didn't put any
headers in the message, and nothing forces them to. "From: ", "To: ",
"Subject:", date headers are basically documentation and are not
required to send an email.

If you show all headers, you will probably see headers that the SMTP
servers that handled the message put there. These would make some sort
of traceback possible, but you'd have to have to cooperation of the
owners of those servers.
 
If you checked your mail more often you would have known I'm back for a couple
of days again. <VBG>

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| Now /there's/ a sight for sore eyes: Dundat!
| --
| ~PA Bear
|
| Bindar Dundat wrote:
| > You should never end a rule with a file move or delete Bob. Always include
| > "And stop processing more rules" in these cases.
| >
| >> Tools, Rules, Sender is "", Delete
| >>
| >> Harley_dude_canada wrote:
| >>
| >>> Hi everyone,
| >>>
| >>> I was wondering if anyone else has seen emails coming in to Outlook
| >>> Express that are blank;
| >>>
| >>> 1) no sender
| >>> 2) no subject
| >>> 3) no message content
| >>>
| >>> If so, do we know how they are being generated and how to stop these?
| >>>
| >>> Thanks in Advance !
 
Today =?Utf-8?B?SGFybGV5X2R1ZGVfY2FuYWRh?= commented
courteously on the subject at hand
Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone else has seen emails coming in to
Outlook Express that are blank;

1) no sender
2) no subject
3) no message content

If so, do we know how they are being generated and how to
stop these?

Thanks in Advance !
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Spam with a capital "S". If the E-mail is coming from someone
you know, they probably blind copied you along with everybody
else to preserve their E-mail privacy. Spam gets sent by bots or
whatever you choose to call them after you've had your E-mail(s)
hijacked in any of hundreds of ways. It is difficult to stop
this because the sender constantly changes as well as the
subject, both of which may look blank but aren't. So, it's very
tough to create spam filters in OE.

I get 5-10 a day, which I just delete. If you haven't already,
add an icon to OE for Preview and leave it "off" so that you
don't accidently open any bogus stuff. Just mark them read and
delete them. If you're getting hundreds per day, see if your ISP
can help, else you may need to do what I did some time back -
change your E-mail addy.
 
Today =?Utf-8?B?SGFybGV5X2R1ZGVfY2FuYWRh?= commented
courteously on the subject at hand
Interesting, so this is only specific to OE that came with
XP ?
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It doesn't matter what E-mail client you use. In this context,
they will all act the same. See my earlier reply to you for some
hints.
 

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