Email attachments

[Jody]

It was reported to me that when I sent an email an attachment was included
that had many emails that I previously sent. I did not send an attachment in
this case, how is this possible?

 

[webster72n]

It was reported to me that when I sent an email an attachment was included
that had many emails that I previously sent. I did not send an attachment
in
this case, how is this possible?

Ignore it and DON"T OPEN ATTACHMENTS, unless you are absolutely sure of it's
origin and the contents to be safe!

Harry.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

It was reported to me that when I sent an email an attachment was included
that had many emails that I previously sent. I did not send an attachment
in
this case, how is this possible?

Check your sent mail folder for the mail in question and look at it
carefully. Does it have attachments?

Attachments would appear in your sent mail folder, and it's possible to add
emails and news messages if you have a mail open, move the cursor over to
the list of mail and drag mail onto the mail compose window. It's possible
that you might not notice this happening, especially if you don't realise
that it can happen or that this feature exists.

If the attachments don't appear in the sent item, and if you have no record
of sending that mail and should, I'd suggest that you change your email
passwords immediately. It can happen that password and email address
hackers eventually get lucky and put together a winning combination, and
send mail in your name. I've had this happen to me. It doesn't
necessarily mean that your system is infected with anything.

HTH
-pk

 

[Jody]

Check your sent mail folder for the mail in question and look at it
carefully. Does it have attachments?

Attachments would appear in your sent mail folder, and it's possible to add
emails and news messages if you have a mail open, move the cursor over to
the list of mail and drag mail onto the mail compose window. It's possible
that you might not notice this happening, especially if you don't realise
that it can happen or that this feature exists.

If the attachments don't appear in the sent item, and if you have no record
of sending that mail and should, I'd suggest that you change your email
passwords immediately. It can happen that password and email address
hackers eventually get lucky and put together a winning combination, and
send mail in your name. I've had this happen to me. It doesn't
necessarily mean that your system is infected with anything.

HTH
-pk

PK - I did check the sent folder when she called me and noted right away that there were no attachments. I called one other person that was in the cc line and she did not have any attachments.

This seemed to happen twice to the same recipient - I ran a virus check -
clean. I asked her to forward it back to me, and it came as I sent it to her
- without any attachments. She says when she opened the attachment it
contained many emails that I had sent her previously.

I have since sent her a "test" email and it came through without the weird
attachment.

????

 

[Patrick Keenan]

This seemed to happen twice to the same recipient - I ran a virus check -
clean. I asked her to forward it back to me, and it came as I sent it to
her
- without any attachments. She says when she opened the attachment it
contained many emails that I had sent her previously.

I have since sent her a "test" email and it came through without the weird
attachment.

????

OK, then, it may be that her mail client is grouping mails by conversation.
Did these mails have a common subject line?

You, or a tech person, perhaps want to actually see what's on her screen to
verify what is really there.

I'm just guessing here as I can't see what's on her system, but if you have
the original mail and in your sent folder with no attachments and other
recipients didn't get them either, it's specific to her system.

HTH
-pk

 

[kathryn v]

can anyone tell me how to take photo email attach. and download them onto a
dvd with vista?? tried dropping/dragging onto dick,etc....

 

[Steve Cochran]

Save the attachments first to your Pictures directory and then you can try
putting them onto a DVD. You probably have to save them first outside of
WinMail.

steve