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Computer e-mail problem
cbxjeff
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I have been running the same e-mail program for years. I have moved to Firefox maybe 2 years ago. I get many e-mail/day and most are just fine. A few that I open have instead of a brief message have maybe 100 lines of numbers & letters with a few english words here & there. Is this assembly language? My guess that the message is being opened by a different program but I know very little about computers. (Obviously) These problem e-mail come from various sources. Any ideas folks?
Thanks,
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Hi Jeff. Firefox is a web browser, not an email program. What email program are you using? Outlook Express? Outlook? Windows Mail?
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Yes, Mr. Perfect - I misspoke. I started using Prodigy to access the internet back in the 80's. It has evolved to what is now called "at&t-yahoo. I believe the email program is Outlook Express. My e-mail name hasn't changed
Jeff, my gut tells me that when you get the badly formatted e-mails, that they are forwards. Somewhere along the way to you (via many others) they have gotten corrupted by bad headers or type identifiers that Outlook Express can't decode properly. There is probably little you can do. You might try adjusting your settings to display all messages in HTML format (regardless of source)... or turn that feature off if it is on.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Jeff, I'd take out your email from the post or spammers will grab it and you'll never get the end of those... They use web crawlers specifically looking for addresses.
Thanks bambihunter though anyone that buys anything from me gets my email address. I'm happy that we members/ buyers are all honorable people. 😏
Jeff, I can't offer any assistance with regard to Windows. I could help if you used Linux, but if you used Linux you wouldn't need any help.
I get those also. It is from an automatic search program looking for valid email addresses. If you open one it indicates that it made a hit.