[plug] What's this ??

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Aunty Jack wrote:

> i've had several emails that look like the following forwarded message:
[...] 
> 1 997171869.23119.symphony-02
> 2 997172149.29912.symphony-02
[...] 
> when i "View" - "All Headers" (using kmail) i get the following:
>
> body { font-family: "helvetica" } p { font-size: 14pt } a { color: #0000ff; 
> text-decoration: none; }Content-Type: 
> Status: RO
> X-Status: O

Are there any "Received:" lines in the headers?

> it sorta looks a bit like some kind of machine name . . .

Yeah, symphony-02.iinet.net.au is a valid host, and the lines in your
email look suspiciously like email message-id's.  It seems almost as if
someone's email client (or one of iiNet's mailservers) is very confused
about something, and is sending you messed up messages, where the message
id (and only the message id) is ending up inside the body of the message.

If there are any Received: headers they should show you where the messages
originated.  If there are none they must have either originated on iiNet's
mailserver, or within kmail.

 - Matt