Sometimes, my forwarded messages go through with massive amounts of metadata preceding the message. Also, attachments like PDFs sometimes go through as code.
This is a sporadic problem. I get a file with a PDF attachment and need to forward it to others. They tell me that it comes through without the PDF, but with many, many lines of code in the main message. My email is set to forward attachments as attachments, not in the body of the email.
I now learn that a simple, one-line response to an email has gone through with meta data about the email appearing prior to my one-line response. My headers control is set to Normal.
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perhaps you could supply screen shot or a sample so folk would know what you are talking about.
What goes out is what you see when you click the send button. However sometime anti virus programs mess up the email in an attempt to scan it. Perhaps that is happening to you.
I can't really provide a screen shot, because everything looks fine on my computer. The problem is at the receivers' end.
would that be after your anti virus scanned the outgoing mail?
I do have my AVG antivirus set to scan outgoing emails. But, would this situation be so very inconsistent if it's due to antivirus? It arises mostly --- but not always --- when I forward emails with attachments to others in my group. Mostly, they go through fine, but sometimes as code.
Turn off the outgoing scanning. what virus is the scanner going to hind? The one it missed when it infected your system? Not likely, it missed it then so it does not know how to detect it. Otherwise it is certifying your system free of viruses and as they do not spontaneously come into existence you do not have a virus to be included in your outgoing mail
It was your mention of PDF file that made me think anti virus, they tend to mess up on them most for some reason.
Also check the View menu (alt+V) that the headers is set to normal, having that set to ALL can see significantly more header type information in forwards.
Thanks, Matt. I've changed my antivirus setting and we'll see what happens. (Already had my headers set to normal.)