Len Gerstel wrote:
I am running 10.2.8 with mail 1.2.5 (v533) on a beige G4. Just today
the following message popped up in my junk folder:
The message from <Unknown sender> concerning “<Unknown subject>” has
not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account
online in order to download it.
The From and Subject in the list view of the mail box is blank, and
when I view the message there is no header at all, even when I select
show all headers. Also, the content does not change if I select Show
Raw Source. I have also selected all text and pasted it into a new
textedit document and nothing new shows up. All my mailboxes are pop
and are Online.
I have seen 3-4 of these today, and this is the first time I have
seen this. It has possibly corrupted my junk mail box (or it may be
coincidence. I lost some messages in the Junk mailbox today (I leave
mail there and it is not set to autodelete) that showed up in my
regular inbox after I rebuilt all my mailboxes.
On Jan 21, 2006, at 5:19 PM, E.L. Jones wrote:
Yes it a typical virus ploy in windows-- All the rage right now. It
can come "empty" or it may come as a familiar address with a notice
that it can't be downloaded or was an error in downloading, yada yada,
and you have to go to your online mail box to read--ergo click the
link.
If you look close there is probably a micro-mini-sized .gif or ,jpg
image about 4 pixes by 4 pixels on the screen somewhere in the text
stream (--the color can be set to "clear" so it might be hard to find
. It will be between 26 and 32kb in actual size. Within it is the
virus code hiding from your antivirus software. This method takes
advantage of an exploitable vuneribility that can be hidden in image
formats
Nice thought, but...
1) I do not think a virus can hide the email headers, particularly when
you choose to show all headers
2) There were no headers, not a single bit.
3) there was no "click here" link, even when looking at the raw source
of the "email"
4) There were no Attachments with it
I have seen enough virii from people that I am on email lists from that
come with attachments so I know what they look like. I must have gotten
100 Sobers. These are the kind of people that send out a mass email
(common in our industry) with 100 names in the To: field, none in cc or
bcc.
OYY!!
On Jan 21, 2006, at 7:47 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
I suspect Mail got confused or interrupted while downloading from your
mail server, and has a record that it tried to get a message, but
nothing else. This has nothing to do with the content of any mail
message. It may have been mid-check when you server or network
connection blinked.
I'd just delete the thing.
That is what I did at first, but the multiple occurrences along with
the fact of my junk mail box becoming severely corrupted got me
worried.
We'll see what happens,
Thanks,
Len
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