Received 1 email but from 2 people!

[Karin]

I received an email this morning that has me confused. Today is Sept 9/09. It
was dated Nov 15/08. If that was not confusing enough, it also contained a
lot of html and the emails from 2 different people. Has anyone ever received
an email where two email messages got mixed up together and delivered as one
message?
Thanks for your help.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I received an email this morning that has me confused. Today is Sept 9/09. It
was dated Nov 15/08. If that was not confusing enough, it also contained a
lot of html and the emails from 2 different people. Has anyone ever received
an email where two email messages got mixed up together and delivered as one
message?

It's fairly easy to produce a mail message the lists multiple addresses in the
From header and some mail clients allow access to that feature. Also, the
Date header can have anything in it that the sender wants you to see. There's
very little about a mail message that can't be altered or faked.

 

[Karin]

Hi Brian.
The messages were from two people I know. It was almost as if they sent the
messages at the same time and Outlook (2003) stuck them together into one
email message. These two people don't know each other so they couldn't have
sent me information about the other person.
The first part of the email showed this:

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0024_01C94728.9D1BAB70
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0025_01C94728.9D1BAB70"


------=_NextPart_001_0025_01C94728.9D1BAB70
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

This was followed by a whole bunch of XML/HTML. Does this mean anything to
you?
Thanks.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

It could be because today is: 090909 (you may call it 09-09-2009)!!!!
Chinese seems to know everything about this!

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

The messages were from two people I know. It was almost as if they sent the
messages at the same time and Outlook (2003) stuck them together into one
email message. These two people don't know each other so they couldn't have
sent me information about the other person.
The first part of the email showed this:

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

....snip...

I don't believe those few MIME headers you posted enter into the equation.
It's what comes before that that matters. In fact, you shouldn't be seeing
MIME headers in the bodies of your messages unless something is disrupting
your incoming data stream. If you see raw HTML, the problem is usually caused
by scanning your incoming mail with your antivirus program. Uninstall your AV
program and reinstall it without the mail scanning feature. You will be just
as protected. Monitor incoming mail again. The problem won't be fixed for
what you've alreday received, but there's a good chance it won't happen again.