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Subject:Re: block of random characters
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 6 Dec 2016 21:13:33 -0500

What Mr. Abney said.

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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)
>