They might have a bot running on their system. Have you noticed any other patterns? Like the time span of arrivals? Did this happen with just one message, or several? Does it have any attachments?
I would be suspicious of that email or any thing else from that user. Try to verify what he sent off line, if possible. Try running ClamAV on it to see if it matches any known signatures. I don't think AOL is a clue to the size discrepancy, unless it is re-routing it incorrectly somehow. Have you checked the route path in the headers? Ed Michael H. Georg wrote: > Any suggestions as to why I would receive 3-4 apparently exact copies > of one particular sender's emails? They appear to be identical in > content but the size indicated in my email client, (in the case of one > particular email) shows, 1663KB, 1808KB, 2866KB, and 3504KB. The size > of the increase doesn't appear to increment in any logical order, > being 145KB, 1058KB, and 638KB respectively. I will note, this is the > only correspondent I have who uses an aol.com address. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >_______________________________________________ >CWE-LUG mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.cwelug.org/ >http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ >http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ > > -- Ed Howland WDT Solutions, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (314) 962-0766 _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
