> I received yesterday an e-mail with a .exe file attached, it had
> hardly any headers. There was an IP address where Imail received
> it from but there was no from or subject.
If there was no From: or Subject:, but there was an attachment, then it was very
likely a virus. A legitimate E-mail client won't send out E-mail without a From:
address. If there is an attachment sent via MIME, then there *must* be some headers
at least.
If you saved the message, and can show the headers here, we could give you some more
information. Do you remember the name of the attachment?
> I thought it was some virus or something just randomly sent so I
> deleted it.
Good idea. Opening an executable file that you were not expecting is not a good idea.
> Now my boss has received two e-mails over the last two days, no
> headers at all, bother were just a series of numbers. No message
> at all.
Where were the numbers, in the E-mail itself? Were there letters as well? It could
be MIME encoding. Were there really no headers -- not even a "Received:" header?
> Do y'all think there is a corruption somewhere? I would like to
> check the logs but there is no information to look at!
At the very least, IMail will store the date/time it received the file in the .mbx
file. You can open it, look for the problem E-mail, and just above the first header
will be a line beginning with "From <" that will have the date/time that IMail
received it. You can then check the log file for that time and find the E-mail.
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-Scott
Declude: Anti-virus and Anti-spam solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com
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