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wollyotta

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I've been getting a series of blank e-mails using outlook express 6.0. In fact, all of my e-mails today were blank (i've received about 20 today) and many of them are mailed at the same time. The subject line is blank and it doesn't give the address of the sender. Any help is appreciated.
 
My best guess would be someone's got a virus? OE has proven to be especially vulnerable.

Then again, it might not be on your end at all. I've gotten quite a few emails like you described and I don't even use OE. I just presume someone else has a virus and I'm in their address book. :(
 
Could it be that you have it set not to open emails that are potentially viruses? check your options.
 
Thanks for your responses.

I don't have it set not to open emails that are potentially viruses, and this has just occured today. I have not had problems like this in the past.

And when I click on properties, it does not give any information...
 
Ok, first off, its super easy to send an e-mail with no information (hehe, its fun to)........ so it might just be someone messing with you. (oh the good old days of telnet) :cool: :cool: :cool:

To test this theory out, here is what i recommend you do. create a new e-mail, in the send field ENTER YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS, in the subject and body... just put something, like "test".

Send it, wait a minute, and click "send and receive" and see how it comes back to you. If it displays your information, the subject, the reply to address, and the body text then your fine!

keep us posted!
 
So i did your test and it worked fine. This means there is no problem? This is VERY odd... no?

Thank you.
 
Chances are that your mail server had some kind of problem...

If you want to send a "blank" e-mail like those, you mail telnet your SMTP server:

TELNET <mailserver_address> 25

<Welcome message>

HELO <your_email_address>

<Probable answer: 250 OK>

MAIL FROM:<your_email_address>

<Probable answer: 250 <your_email_address> OK>

RCPT TO:<your_email_address>

<Probable answer: 250 <your_email_address> OK>

DATA

<Probable answer: 250 Send data, end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>>

Type <enter>,"." and <enter>

<Probable answer: 250 OK>

QUIT

If your mailserver allows mailing to yourself without authentication you will receive an empty message, no subject and no body. Some servers (badly configured) even allow you to not enter the MAIL FROM: command.

See the RFC:

http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/rfc/rfc2821.txt

For more details on how this works
 
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