In a small fraction of the emails I receive, I can read only the first three lines of the message in my Microsoft Outlook’s “AutoPreview”, but none of it when the message is opened or in a “Preview Pane” if I switch that on. However, if I repeatedly attempt to open the email message, it will sometimes open successfully, on anything from the 2nd to the 20th or 30th attempt, and if it does open once, it then does so every subsequent time. (I thought computers were supposed to be deterministic, reproducible machines.)
If the message is a Reply, I see only the quotation of my message. This has occurred in a fraction of the emails from a correspondent who uses Netscape as his service provider [X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404)], and in single messages received from users of X-Mailer = Lotus Notes and Openwave WebEngine. The same behavior has been seen both before and after the last big MS Office update, and the Windows XP Service Pack 2 installation. Searching for commonalities among the non-openers, I find that all of them have the “on behalf of” form in the “From:” line and “Content-Type: multipart/mixed” and “Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary” in the header (seen via View/Options). Also, they might all be “Reply”s to my messages, but I’m not certain, since part of the evidence gets destroyed each time one of them changes from non-opening to opening status. Some messages with those properties open on the first try, but that seems consistent with the second sentence above. All instances of the “on behalf of” “From:” line have the same address before and after that phrase, which I take to mean that the sender is sending from a lap-top instead of his home PC.
I am running:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
MS Outlook 2002 SP3 (as part of MS Office Professional) (NB: not Outlook Express)
Whattheheck is going on?
How do I fix it/read those messages?
(preferably without requiring senders to change what they are doing or re-send messages)
If you don’t know, who might?
Thanks, XRDGUY
If the message is a Reply, I see only the quotation of my message. This has occurred in a fraction of the emails from a correspondent who uses Netscape as his service provider [X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404)], and in single messages received from users of X-Mailer = Lotus Notes and Openwave WebEngine. The same behavior has been seen both before and after the last big MS Office update, and the Windows XP Service Pack 2 installation. Searching for commonalities among the non-openers, I find that all of them have the “on behalf of” form in the “From:” line and “Content-Type: multipart/mixed” and “Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary” in the header (seen via View/Options). Also, they might all be “Reply”s to my messages, but I’m not certain, since part of the evidence gets destroyed each time one of them changes from non-opening to opening status. Some messages with those properties open on the first try, but that seems consistent with the second sentence above. All instances of the “on behalf of” “From:” line have the same address before and after that phrase, which I take to mean that the sender is sending from a lap-top instead of his home PC.
I am running:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
MS Outlook 2002 SP3 (as part of MS Office Professional) (NB: not Outlook Express)
Whattheheck is going on?
How do I fix it/read those messages?
(preferably without requiring senders to change what they are doing or re-send messages)
If you don’t know, who might?
Thanks, XRDGUY