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Date:         Tue, 6 Dec 2016 21:13:33 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: block of random characters
Comments: To: "C. Abney" <tsudonimh@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <CALsWj8=2ww3mvfwop29rySaYF=kp0iePnQ5FOxFne0rvpQcPmg@mail.gmail.com>
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What Mr. Abney said.

Yrs, d

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 3:39 PM, C. Abney <tsudonimh@gmail.com> wrote:

> My off-the-cuff guess is somehow Outlook is munging the email headers: > Each line should immediately follow the next, and they should have the > same HEADERTYPE[COLON]HEADERCONTENT format. > > But Outlook is putting some email references in the middle of them, > which do not follow that format shown above, and because every > email-reader expects an empty line at the end of the headers, they > display what follows as though it were the content of your email, and > not more headers. Either that or something along the route between you > and the vanagon mail server is munging the headers, but I sorta doubt > that or they'd be getting a lot of attention from outlook users and > their servicer providers. > > I don't use Outlook, so I can't say what you may do to stop that > behavior, but it's possible there is a setting to stop or start > tracking conversations, or however outlook sorts mail, that might be > toggled to stop the behavior. The mail reference IDs are where it's > messing up. > > > I hesitate to comment on the list due to this problem, but I'm not sure > > what's causing it. I am simply using outlook...no word processors, no > other > > funky stuff like that. Just straight up Outlook. > > > > Can someone explain to me how to change my email address to see if that > > helps? > > > -- > It seems my TO-DO list is a FITO (faster-in-than-out) >


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