When sending or forwarding emails to (3) of my many contact, using Windows
mail and I have Vista as my operating system, in the last month these
contacts who's providers are all three different ISP's have started getting
the following in the body of their emails with nothing else? Has anyone
else experienced this problem... Help?




katie farias <katiefarias@xxxxxx> wrote:
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That is a very rare symptom. I believe you are only the 9th person to
report this problem in the 16 months I've been active here.
We don't know what the cause is, or how to fix it. You can try
upgrading to Windows Live Mail:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview
--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP


"katie farias" <katiefarias@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eOj15Dm0IHA.1628@xxxxxx

> When sending or forwarding emails to (3) of my many contact, using Windows mail and I have Vista as my operating system, in the
> last month these contacts who's providers are all three different ISP's have started getting the following in the body of their
> emails with nothing else? Has anyone else experienced this problem... Help?
>
>
> katie farias <katiefarias@xxxxxx> wrote:
> ÿþ<
>

Go to Tools, Options, Receipts. Select "Never send a read receipt".

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Larry Becker" <Larry Becker@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B19021C5-4ABD-46C0-AD81-57F7710581F1@xxxxxx

> When four of my many contacts send me an email, all using different isp's,
> they receive a completely blank email from me and it is not in my sent mail
> folder. The time of the email "sent" is the same as the time of receipt of
> the email from them. I use Windows Mail and Vista.

I had my options set to notify me when a read receipt was requested and I did
not receive this notification with these emails. Do you believe this was
still the problem?

In the meantime, I downloaded Windows Live Mail. I ended up with two email
accounts, one Comcast (larrybecker1) (Default Account) and the other
comcast.net. All properties are identical except the server port numbers and
security. The first has default numbers of 25 for SMTP and 110 for POP3
without requiring a secure connection. The second one has 587 for SMTP and
995 for SSL and requires a secure connection. Should I delete the latter
account?

"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:

> Go to Tools, Options, Receipts. Select "Never send a read receipt".
>
> --
> Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)
>
>
> "Larry Becker" <Larry Becker@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:B19021C5-4ABD-46C0-AD81-57F7710581F1@xxxxxx

> > When four of my many contacts send me an email, all using different isp's,
> > they receive a completely blank email from me and it is not in my sent mail
> > folder. The time of the email "sent" is the same as the time of receipt of
> > the email from them. I use Windows Mail and Vista.

>
>
>

I don't know what was causing the blank replies, if it wasn't some part
of the 'read receipt function. You did well to move on to Windows Live
Mail. As for your two Comcast accounts, it sounds like neither has the
correct settings. Comcast has shifted from port 25 to port 587 for SMTP,
but their POP server is still on port 110 (no SSL), not port 995.
The complete settings are documented here:

http://www.comcast.com/Customers/FAQ...s.ashx?Id=2288

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Larry Becker" <LarryBecker@xxxxxx> wrote in message newsF1EFF4C-7B00-43B7-AB34-D00F4B848796@xxxxxx

>I had my options set to notify me when a read receipt was requested and I did
> not receive this notification with these emails. Do you believe this was
> still the problem?
>
> In the meantime, I downloaded Windows Live Mail. I ended up with two email
> accounts, one Comcast (larrybecker1) (Default Account) and the other
> comcast.net. All properties are identical except the server port numbers and
> security. The first has default numbers of 25 for SMTP and 110 for POP3
> without requiring a secure connection. The second one has 587 for SMTP and
> 995 for SSL and requires a secure connection. Should I delete the latter
> account?
>
> "Gary VanderMolen" wrote:
>

>> Go to Tools, Options, Receipts. Select "Never send a read receipt".
>>
>> --
>> Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)
>>
>>
>> "Larry Becker" <Larry Becker@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:B19021C5-4ABD-46C0-AD81-57F7710581F1@xxxxxx

>> > When four of my many contacts send me an email, all using different isp's,
>> > they receive a completely blank email from me and it is not in my sent mail
>> > folder. The time of the email "sent" is the same as the time of receipt of
>> > the email from them. I use Windows Mail and Vista.

>>
>>
>>