RE: [PCTECH] Malformed emails

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's the entire message on the server's side? While perhaps outlook
shouldn't barf on that message, the server shouldn't even have that
message. 

It's hard to tell w/out seeing the binary version of that message-id,
but it looks like the message-id has a control character in it. The
MessageID must be made up of only ascii characters between 33 and 126.
Control characters fall outside that range. Do you have a hex editor?
What's the last part of the message in hex?

Now, it could be that it was a valid attempt to send a message that got
interrupted, or it could be an invalid message that's sent, but either
way the server should have discarded the message.

-Walden


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Walden H Leverich III
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-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Thursday, 23 December, 2004 07:06
To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
Subject: [PCTECH] Malformed emails

Every day, among the 200+ spams I get , there are invariably a couple
that
cause Outlook to stop with a Send/Receive error.  The I5 is our mail
server,
so I have to go to that directory on the IFS and blow those away
manually.
There are a couple of other users here with the same issue on a smaller
scale.  Here is a sample of one of them:

Received: from
dsl-201-135-98-18.prod-infinitum.com.mx(dsl-201-135-98-18.prod-infinitum
.com
.mx[201.135.98.18]) by I5.DILGARDFOODS.COM (IBM OS/400 SMTP V05R03M00)
with
TCP; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:02:40 -0500
Received: from  by 201.135.98.18; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 03:00:43 -0400
Message-ID: <O[20

That's the entire email.  They can be from many different locations.
Can
someone tell me where/what the problem might be?  Is it an issue with
Outlook as a client, or a mail server problem?  If I knew that answer,
I'd
at least have a place to start.

Thanks.

-- 
Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company.  Unless I say so.



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