[muglo] Re: Mysteriuous Messages

on 5/7/02 9:32 AM, Eric D. at hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> on 6/5/02 20:50, Paul Thomas at paulthomas@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>> I seem to be receiving a number of odd messages recently.  Usually about a
>> 120k or so consisting of attachments only and little or no message - often
>> including a HTML file or .exe file - I guess an ibm source.  The problem is
>> that they come from different names so as to make them difficult to trap!!
>> And in any case one has to wait for them to be transferred with a 56k
>> modem!!
>> 
>> Anybody having a similar problem??
>> 
>> Paul
> 
> Are these messages from people you know or from strangers?

From strangers - many seem to be connected with eBay!!
> 
> If they're people you know it could be a virus that's making the rounds in
> the Windows world that randomly selects a recipient and a sender from
> someone's address book and mails it to that recipient and makes it appear
> that it's coming from a third-party sender.
> 
> Dealing with it: I think all the e-mail clients allow you to leave messages
> over a certain size on the server. In Outlook Express it's under the Tools
> menu. Tools:Accounts then double-click on the account and click on the
> "Options" tab. You then have the option to "partially receive messages
> over".

I found this but was not sure of the interpretation. If you set this to some
number such as 100k, does this mean that it sends just the first 100k or
none of it?  And if so and you want it can you then get the rest of the
message??

Paul



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