Hello Paul, On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 06:41:27 -0500 GMT (06/03/2004, 18:41 +0700 GMT), Paul Cartwright wrote:
> I got an empty email today. I have seen some empty emails on the server > before, but TB choked on them and quit processing. I would have to use > the mail dispatcher, uncheck the receive box, continue processing, and > the rest of the mails would flow to me. Today, this one made it > through. It was empty except for these headers, any idea what this > means?? Yes: > Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 04:49:02 +0000 (GMT) This is a time stamp. See below. > X-Comment: Sending client does not conform to RFC822 minimum requirements The minimum requirements are From address and a time stamp. > X-Comment: Date has been added by Maillennium This mail service, somehwere en route, added the missing time stamp (above) to make the message RFC-compliant. I think it would have been a good diea to send it to dev/nul instead. > Received: from mantonite.force9.co.uk ([81.174.168.93]) > by rwcrmxc11.comcast.net (rwcrmxc11) with SMTP > id <20040306044900r11004vni6e>; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 04:49:01 +0000 Normal Received header. > X-Originating-IP: [81.174.168.93] Another X-header. X-headers can be set by anybody, and can be ignored by receiving clients/servers at will. > I did a whois and found this: All you know is that the mail was sent Plusnet. The only open question is why TB chokes on a message that does not have a time stamp in the header. BTW is the message really empty? Have you checked with F9? -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Personnel executives of 100 major corporations were asked for stories of unusual behavior by job applicants. 10. "... stretched out on the floor to fill out the job application." Message reply created with The Bat! 2.04.7 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 256MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.04.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
