Resolved Strange e-mail received from taleworlds

[Cleaning agent]

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[morgoth2005]

Just sent Janus an email and message regarding this. I also received one, that was my second.

He replied and I quote:

Every so often (quite rarely) I receive messages from [email protected], which do not contain a subject or a body...

[email protected] is Armagan's admin e-mail account, so I don't see why he would be sending you blank messages. Note that just because it says it's from [email protected], that doesn't mean it really is. Spoofing the sender e-mail address is a very simple matter and spammers do that with e-mail addresses they have to make it look like someone else is spamming who isn't.
The best way to be sure is to check the full headers of the e-mail to see the last listing of what IP address sent the message.
Also, if a message contains a virus then some antivirus programs will simply gut it so that it's a blank message.

I've forwarded him the email I received, because it was from server2.taleworlds.com

 

[Janus]

I forwarded it to you. It was sent by server2.taleworlds.com I'm confused. I agree on the fact that it wasn't armagan, but it could be a malfunction of the server.

server2.taleworlds.com is the server which the forum here is on, rather than the main site server. I haven't gotten one of these e-mails, but that looks like it might have been around the time that the server went haywire due to the power outage. So, I'd guess it's a glitch caused by that. Let me know if you get one again.

 

[morgoth2005]

Thanks Janus. We were just checking, because we don't know.

 

[Archonsod]

It's from the automated email system (the one that lets you know you have personal messages, provides account activation and the like) so the most likely scenario is that it had emails to send out when it went down, and it's now clearing them. You'll probably have had a new personal message or the like when you logged on today.


Mind you, I've known servers retain email which has been stuck for months, and not actually shift it till a reboot.

 

[Cleaning agent]

Yeah, I got 2 more PMs today, and instead of the usual "You have a new PM" message, I now have a blank message from [email protected] again... I guess it must be to do with that.

 

[morgoth2005]

Thing is, I also continue to receive them, long since the server was down.

 

[Hallequin]

I got one of those yesterday too at the same time as I got a PM (a really good one too ). Looks like the server error replaced the default message or something.

 

[morgoth2005]

got 2 more.

 

[Janus]

Hmm... I'll see what I can see.

 

[bonddude]

So you think its fixable after all??? Would be kinda freaky if i just randomly get that seeing I keep getting freaky emails already =S

 

[Janus]

bonddude, if you have nothing useful to add then please don't post.

I've checked the SMF forums and found reference to a glitch with the SMF software based on some "fix" it has specifically for e-mails sent to hotmail and other web-based e-mail addresses.

EDIT: counterfix is now applied which will hopefully stop the blank messages from being sent. Let me know if you still get more blank messages after this point.

 

[David Derde]

just recieved two blank emails from server2.taleworlds.com at around 10am GMT (which makes it 9am on your clocks), haven't had any new PMs recently,so... server going spastic i guess 

 

[morgoth2005]

I got one 8:47 London time.

 

[Cleaning agent]

I only get them in conjuntion with PMs as it is (although that may be coincidence)

 

[morgoth2005]

I still keep getting them and they don't seem to be connected to the PMs.

 

[Janus]

You've probably got reply notification enabled for certain topics or boards, which also has it send out e-mails.

Hmm... will look further into it when I have time since it's still occuring.

Could somebody forward one of the e-mails as an attachment instead of an inline message? Might help me. repository[at]fenrisoft.com

 

[morgoth2005]

I did already but what the heck...

 

[Janus]

I did already but what the heck...

You sent it as inline, not an attachment.

 

[morgoth2005]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
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