A friend with ISP=Earthlink as received an e-mail that she claims should have had an attachment but did not appear to. She asked me to help troubleshoot and asked if the string of numbers at the bottom of the headers was part of the failed attachment. What she sent me was:I'm not entirely sure what it might be, so don't quote me on this, but it would appear to be some sort of unique ID for mail that passes through the Earthlink mailserver. Googling for "X-ELNK-Trace" shows several web archives of mailing lists that contain that text in the header.
X-ELNK-Trace: d8058532d243c3bc9c7eb22f8f7b187e74bf435c0eb9d478319c119a2e038158a72dff98192ec9e2e95486fbd0a11c3c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c(the rest of the headers appeared normal AFAICT)
Thought I'd start with my favorite group of e-mail geeks. Anybody seen this before? Should I let my paranoia run wild and speculate what it might be used for? Maybe this is old news, but...
I do not believe it would be related to an attachment not showing up (though it might possibly be, again, don't quote me). I do know that Earthlink has Brightmail as their "Spaminator" service, and it might hold attachments for further review.
I just compete with Earthlink (on an incredibly puny scale), I don't work for them. :)
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Pete Stephenson
HeyPete.com
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