Receiving blank messages- help???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have a strange problem that maybe an easy hit for many of the subscribers of this group. That is for some reason I am occasionally receiving blank messages in my inbox- that is to say no headers, from, to, or even text in the message! (not even rfc-822 headers) All I get is received and created times in the inbox list, and they are becoming quite annoying. I have even uninstalled, then re-installed the bat (and used restore) and still they occasionally turn up. Please please help as this is becoming very irritating? Best regards, Dave Wilson. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (E-mail me subject: 'public key' and I will send it to you) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8ckt Build 04 iQA/AwUBOtcI2IuowXdtlnXzEQL0LgCfWp1ZghDq5vRQH6TZXbo+SRFUV/EAnRon K35kk1oOedhEzOFqlsaPbh16 =TOxB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- __ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re: Receiving blank messages- help???
On 13-04-2001 at 16:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] kindly wrote: I have a strange problem that maybe an easy hit for many of the subscribers of this group. That is for some reason I am occasionally receiving blank messages in my inbox- that is to say no headers, from, to, or even text in the message! (not even rfc-822 headers) There's a virus around that does exactly that, but it usually has an attachment. Do you get attachments in these empty mails? (Usually, the subject is "Hahaha".) I get at least four a day. - K - -- At last official count nearly 500 gay and lesbian couples had been united in civil unions this summer in Vermont. There were flowers, champagne, brides and brides, grooms and grooms. The sky did not fall. The earth did not split in two. Happy families and happy friends watched happy people pledge their love. - Columnist Anna Quindlen, Newsweek, Sept. 11 2000. -- __ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re: Receiving blank messages- help???
On 2001-04-13 at 3:10 pm daveiw wrote: I have a strange problem that maybe an easy hit for many of the subscribers of this group. That is for some reason I am occasionally receiving blank messages in my inbox- that is to say no headers, from, to, or even text in the message! (not even rfc-822 headers) All I get is received and created times in the inbox list, and they are becoming quite annoying. I have even uninstalled, then re-installed the bat (and used restore) and still they occasionally turn up. Please please help as this is becoming very irritating? Your email address immediately suggests to me that it's some quirk of your ISP; when I was (briefly) a member of cwcom.net in 1999 all sorts of strange things happened with email delivery (and many other facilities). Suggestion: (i) Set up a secondary (completely different) email package to access your mailbox, ensuring _that email is left on the server_ by it; (ii) Before using The Bat! to download email off the server, check mail (without downloading it) using the other package. Are the problems visible with the secondary email package? Alastair -- __ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re[2]: Receiving blank messages- help???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Alastair, Friday, April 13, 2001, 3:30:57 PM, you wrote: I have a strange problem that maybe an easy hit for many of the subscribers of this group. That is for some reason I am occasionally receiving blank messages in my inbox- that is to say no headers, from, to, or even text in the message! (not even rfc-822 headers) All I get is received and created times in the inbox list, and they are becoming quite annoying. I have even uninstalled, then re-installed the bat (and used restore) and still they occasionally turn up. Please please help as this is becoming very irritating? AS Your email address immediately suggests to me that it's some quirk of AS your ISP; when I was (briefly) a member of cwcom.net in 1999 all sorts AS of strange things happened with email delivery (and many other AS facilities). Many thanks for your swift replies, especially Alastair. I have tried another client (OE) as you suggested and found that it too received 1 of those messages. This may suggest the ISP but I have never had this problem before. Is it possible that I may have some sort of virus on my PC (this seems unlikely as the messages are few and far between) that's causing this? Apart from changing ISP - something I do not wish to do, do you have any suggestions? Also in answer to Karin's question - I have no attachments with the messages. :-) - -- Best regards, Dave Wilson. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (E-mail me subject: 'public key' and I will send it to you) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8ckt Build 04 iQA/AwUBOtc0WYuowXdtlnXzEQIvcgCgtMLVUyD7O+37tJ+mxftB0TavuM8AnAu7 3H7oPxOUgoFtRL9nFtzgEGW7 =Wvc2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- __ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re[3]: Receiving blank messages- help???
On 2001-04-13 at 6:15 pm daveiw wrote: Many thanks for your swift replies, especially Alastair. I have tried another client (OE) as you suggested and found that it too received 1 of those messages. This may suggest the ISP but I have never had this problem before. Is it possible that I may have some sort of virus on my PC (this seems unlikely as the messages are few and far between) that's causing this? Apart from changing ISP - something I do not wish to do, do you have any suggestions? Also in answer to Karin's question - I have no attachments with the messages. :-) A look around suggests that: (i) completely blank emails are most likely an offshoot of faulty spamming software (!) (ii) completely blank emails _with an attachment_ are produced by a number of virus generators (I had one a couple of weeks ago where there were no headers whatsoever but an attachment containing a virus; Panda Antivirus sounded the alarm immediately it was received). Certainly, as there is literally nothing in the emails, they can only be harmless but annoying; the best solution is probably to work up a The Bat! filter to silently delete them before they get to you. (That said, I am having trouble working out what such a filter would be when the incoming message seemingly contains nothing at all, not even a header. Help!) Alastair -- __ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
