What's going on with these emails?

[flavio]

My dad sends me 4 or 5 email jokes a day and none of the emails I get from him ever have a "from" field.
Then on top of that there's all this header information in the body of the email that I have to sort through if I want to read them.

I don't know how he's setup that they turn out this way, but it's getting really annoying.

Got any idea what's going on here?

Here's a sample .

 

[unclehobart]

Its amazing how you can wak into a letter bomb on some sites. The same thing happened to me last fall. Some unknown site did an autoregister for a pile of newsletters covering all topics. I was getting roughly 40 a day. It took 3 months to track it all down and cancel them one at a frickin time. I figure I wasted 15 hours in legwork alone.

 

[Q]

That's really hard to read flav. I think all that shit shows up if he's just hitting forward. When I forward a joke (or whatever) I delete all that crappola. The longer it's been forwarded, the more shit shows up in the header. The more I look at that sample, though...
Does it only happen with fwd'ed email or ALL the email he sends you?

 

[flavio]

He hasn't emailed me anything but jokes since he switched to cable a couple months ago, which I assume are forwarded. I get all kinds of other stuff forwarded to me and his are the only ones like this though.

Here's what my inbox looks like
here .


See how there's no "From" field? I don't know how he does this.

 

[Q]

Yeah, that's pretty weird. I notice he has plain text, maybe if he switches to HTML??? (just taking wild stabs here)

 

[fury]

What email client is he using?

 

[flavio]

I'm going to ask himn some questions about this...if I hit "reply" I still have to type in his address. Somehow the header information just isn't being passed properly, it's going into the body of the email instead.

 

[Q]

Under the message tab, see what's checked under create rule from message.

 

[Q]

Flav, let us know when you figure this out. Shit, it's driving me crazy now.