untagged messages

[Leland J. Steinke]

hermit921 wrote:
>
> Here is an example with headers and body, with a few changes to protect my
> names and IP addresses.
>
>> Received: from mail3.me.com (mail3.me.com [a.b.c.d])
>>         by mail.me.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA97118
>>         for <user at me.com>; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 01:37:42 -0800
>> Received: from 66.148.68.10 (server10.enter7.com [66.148.68.10])
>>         by mail3.me.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AC0B124003
>>         for <bin at me.com>; Wed,  4 Feb 2004 01:37:35 -0800 (PST)
>> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 04:37:38 -0500
>> From: "Norris <nvjzrbinj"@enter7.com
>> Message-Id: <20040204093735.7AC0B124003 at mail3.me.com>
>> To: undisclosed-recipients:;
>> X-UIDL: >-9"!NO+!!Gmf"!$TC!!
>>
>>
>> nurtoplpn at enter7.com
>

Here is the complete message as quarantined on our MS server:

==8<===8<===
Received: from CM-vina1-134-59.cm.vtr.net (CM-vina1-134-59.cm.vtr.net
[200.104.134.59])
         by mx05.pa.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A140111526
         for <xxxxxx at pa.net>; Wed,  4 Feb 2004 17:41:35 -0500 (EST)
Received: from 183.240.155.128 by 200.104.134.59; Wed, 04 Feb 2004 21:38:34
-0100
Message-ID: <X[20
Date: Wed,  4 Feb 2004 17:41:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Russell_Omari053 at yahoo.com
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
==8<===8<===

What I downloaded is as follows:

==8<===8<===
 From - Wed Feb  4 17:42:24 2004
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-Path: <russell_omari053 at yahoo.com>
Delivered-To: steinkel at pa.net
Received: from [local delivery stuff irrelevant to the discussion]
Received: from CM-vina1-134-59.cm.vtr.net (CM-vina1-134-59.cm.vtr.net
[200.104.134.59])
        by mx05.pa.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A140111526
        for <xxxxx at pa.net>; Wed,  4 Feb 2004 17:41:35 -0500 (EST)
Received: from 183.240.155.128 by 200.104.134.59; Wed, 04 Feb 2004 21:38:34
-0100
Message-ID: <X[20
Date: Wed,  4 Feb 2004 17:41:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Russell_Omari053 at yahoo.com
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;


Russell_Omari053 at yahoo.com
==8<===8<===

I notice that your From: header has an unmatched "<".  Coincidence?  I just
hand-jammed a message over port 25 with a Message-ID similar to the one I
received but all MS headers came through on the delivered message.

Still a mystery.


Leland