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Allison G  
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From: Allison G
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:40:37 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 14 2008 7:40 am
Subject: Emails arriving no subject no sender
I am getting several emails per day from friends but they show up with
no subject and no sender info - so I have to try and guess who sent
them.  It's happening more and more and many times I can't figure out
who sent the email.  What can I do?

 
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Chip Christian  
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From: Chip Christian
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:48:23 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 14 2008 8:48 am
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
Same here.  They show up as either
(unknown sender) (no subject)
or
root (no subject)

Nothing you or I can do.  The gmail team has to fix something.

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jazzyzea  
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From: jazzyzea
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:32:59 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 14 2008 10:32 am
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
Same here!  I've gotten three of theses messages so far over the last
2-3 days.  I was afraid to even try to open them for fear they may
contain some sort of virus.   From what I can tell the message only
has repeated strings of letters and no real message body.

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Thomas Resing  
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From: Thomas Resing
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:20:07 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 14 2008 11:20 am
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
I've gotten three from Amazon.com this way after purchases yesterday
and today. I think one I received this way today was a ZDNet
Newsletter but the body text was mangledl, as well. This is a HUGE
issue. Do I have to switch back to Yahoo Mail? I hope I didn't give my
gmail address to anyone important?

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mrflip  
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 More options Nov 14 2008, 11:20 am
From: mrflip
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:20:34 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 14 2008 11:20 am
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
I get the same ... legitimate mail coming from known senders arriving
as "unknown sender" and "no subject".  a properly formed version of
the same email is also received.

thanks...

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bkennelly  
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 More options Nov 14 2008, 1:00 pm
From: bkennelly
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:00:13 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 14 2008 1:00 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
All,

Are the messages arriving directly in Gmail, or are they being fetched
from elsewhere?

Do the messages headers appear in the body of the message?


 
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NE1956  
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 More options Nov 14 2008, 1:07 pm
From: NE1956
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:07:36 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 14 2008 1:07 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
To add to what bkennelly is saying, I am seeing this with email from
my ISP (Comcast).  Either a blank sender, blank subject, ? in the
sender or subject.  I see it even in webmail on the Comcast.net
site.

However, I have 2 Gmail accounts and do not see what you all report in
either of them.

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YoNoSoyTu  
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 More options Nov 14 2008, 3:51 pm
From: YoNoSoyTu
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:51:26 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 14 2008 3:51 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
On Nov 14, 7:00 pm, bkennelly wrote:

> All,

> Are the messages arriving directly in Gmail, or are they being fetched
> from elsewhere?

> Do the messages headers appear in the body of the message?

I have been receiving messages like this for a long time, but they
were one or two per week, coming from a specific Mailman list, so I
though it was a list configuration problem.

This last days, however, the garbled messages came from different
sources than that list, so it's not a list configuration problem. The
messages I'm receiving have not From, To or Subject fields, and
sometimes show the MIME Boundaries in the message text (seems like the
MIME-Boundary header is also missing) and some other headers.

As far as I can understand this messages came forwarded from two
different old Yahoo emails, that I forwarded (using their web
application, not Gmail POP fetching), so maybe they are forwarding
incorrectly the messages, and it getting worse this days. I can't
really know, because many of my mail comes from those two old
accounts, so maybe some email addressed directly at my Gmail account
has shown garbled, but I can't really know.

For your information, I going to paste the headers (not the header
contents) from two messages, one that came garbled and one that not
(and they are from the same source, and it's not the mailing list):

[[[The garbled one]]]
Delivered-To:
Received:
Received:
Return-Path:
Received:
Received-SPF:
Authentication-Results:
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:01:11 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id:
Return-Path:
X-RocketTIP:
X-RocketSRV:
X-Rocket-Track:
X-YMailISG:
X-Originating-IP:
Authentication-Results:

[[[The not garbled]]]
Delivered-To:
Received:
Received:
Return-Path:
Received:
Received-SPF:
Authentication-Results:
Return-Path:
X-RocketTIP:
X-RocketSRV:
X-Rocket-Track:
X-YMailISG:
X-Originating-IP:
Authentication-Results:
Received:
Received:
Received:
From:
To:
Subject:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
Message-Id:
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:00:04 -0800 (PST)

As you can see the come a minute apart (but they are not the same
emails), and yes, they are Cron jobs.

Hope that helps you, but if its not your problem I will try to contact
Yahoo Mail team for help.

Thank you very much.


 
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Jeremy Patrick  
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 More options Nov 14 2008, 4:04 pm
From: Jeremy Patrick
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:04:25 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 14 2008 4:04 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
I have my email forwarded from yahoo because they don't offer the
forward but leave a copy in your inbox feature google does.
Anyway.  I just got off the phone with Yahoo engineers (really) and
nothing going on on their side.  definitely a google thing.  Google
does fine with lots of features, but they are severely lacking in
phone support.  Hopefully whatever support team monitors this is
watching as this issue seems to be gmail wide.

Jeremy

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Mark Wilkins  
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 More options Nov 14 2008, 5:27 pm
From: Mark Wilkins
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:27:08 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 14 2008 5:27 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender

I've been having problems with this as well.  The first message I'd
ever seen with this problem was at 5:32 a.m. Pacific time on 11/13/08,
and it's been happening frequently since then.


 
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TSTSTS08  
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 More options Nov 14 2008, 7:03 pm
From: TSTSTS08
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:03:19 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 14 2008 7:03 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
Me too...same problem...

No sender and no subject.  Weird...seems somewhere along the line the
emails are getting stripped of their data.

I think we all have forwards from Yahoo Mail...is that correct?

Gmail is still sort of working out the bugs.  I mean, on another topic
I'm getting perfectly good mail sent to spam ALL the time.  It's such
a hassle to check spam for good messages.  Email is great...but who
knows how many valuable messages I've missed.  Google should at least
be able to identify what email we've opened over time and if it's from
the same people or same topics...wouldn't it be a good idea to let
that into the inbox?  Or maybe have some sort of spam setting on high
medium or low that we could adjust to manually filter our own spam if
we like.

anyway...just my 2cents.  what can you get for 2 cents anyway?  not
even a piece of bazooka bubble gum!

On another subject...Gmail and Yahoo are data mining every email sent
or received....so it's actually possible to monitor the collective
internet conscious...imagine knowing what's on the mind of america and
the world before anybody else?  or knowing exactly what is the most
popular this or that?  think of all the good that could be done.

now i'm rambling...when all i wanted to do was to come on to research
this "no sender / no subject" issue.

well, i'm sure they will fix it soon enough.

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Berkay  
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 More options Nov 14 2008, 10:19 pm
From: Berkay
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:19:44 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 14 2008 10:19 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
I'm also having this problem and I also have emails forwarded from
yahoo. It started happening today, emails from multiple sources, so it
seems the problem is between yahoo forward and google.
Hopefully they can sort it out working together.

Berkay

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Allison G  
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 More options Nov 14 2008, 10:23 pm
From: Allison G
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:23:20 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 14 2008 10:23 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
I also have emails forwarding from yahoo.  Maybe this is Google's way
of telling us to switch over once and for all?

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mamanerd  
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 More options Nov 14 2008, 11:16 pm
From: mamanerd
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:16:50 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Nov 14 2008 11:16 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
I have mails popped from yahoo that show up fine on the yahoo site,
but when popped into gmail yield unknown sender and no subject - so
far these are real messages, I can see it all as text after the
headers...  but the "authentication-results" line is being continued
on the next line with a semicolon then the "from" tag. and I thinks
that this is somehow preventing it from finding the "from" and
"subject" lines.

I started  getting these this morning (11-14), about 7 so far.. but
some of the emails from the same sender make it through just fine when
popped. and yes, some are going into bulk. At first I thought it was
from other servers, as well, but looking at the headers, I see yahoo
is popping those for me and so still come through the yahoo pipeline.

headers with my name grunged out..

Delivered-To: [email address]
Received: by 10.100.12.8 with SMTP id 8cs44811anl;
        Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:03:50 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.100.105.13 with SMTP id d13mr779336anc.
95.1226714629892;
        Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:03:49 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning unknown
does not designate <unknown> as permitted sender)
Message-ID: <491e2e05.2636640a.232c.3316MFETCHER_ADDED@google.com>
Received: by 10.100.54.38 with POP3 id c38mf654631ana.6;
        Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:03:49 -0800 (PST)
X-Gmail-Fetch-Info: [email address] 1 pop.mail.Yahoo.com 995 xxxxxx
X-YahooFilteredBulk:yes
X-Apparently-To: [email address] via 209.191.125.92; Fri, 14 Nov 2008
17:59:54 -0800
X-YMailISG:
0SiPGngWLDuCh6eOUmoi5xuS9qVi15cKsK67zpRqhdVdisgY.QeWYaKve35v_f8DkWKZTjnvmPN ekJFIivo1FQ85GJ5rYRS_joXqtBuAT0HqHOa6NlC8WFHKQXQmCdUmzMo4i_8CNOmctpaYZX3kdw oCduzLITM3GnUQb6U.ytr4UBNKB3OvTPNeu.S4xhcmJv0g2LQfIgxuoQeaiBz1rgZu5K6Z5G7Nj VvFTwllc7ixGCvxVQrZcYr3ji7wcXy_EpLr1xCLSTmgChiB_6l8ukZBeNRbxOEGOXtP3m93wmHO IjcycH6T.ffNoGnFzWbqNxMXJ0cY7k682r3IEZhKF50PDeG.qrH_LrbZCh2hjakmNX_h54SVT20 3gIMpCNiWev_D_jVWXmnydAYrmdUiZGVwztKohOQxlX0ypQavWtXgVCKKO1bdqwVM3765ETGMAg PvdJ.Icz6PYFSyeR.H
X-Originating-IP: [206.137.17.62]
Authentication-Results: mta213.mail.mud.yahoo.com
from=fictionwise.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
; from=fictionwise.com; dkim=neutral  (no  sig)
Received: from 206.137.17.62  (EHLO 062.fictionwise.com)
(206.137.17.62)
  by mta213.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:59:54
-0800
Received: from 192.168.1.27 ([192.168.1.27]) by 062.fictionwise.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713);
         Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:56:57 -0500
From: "Fictionwise.com Big Bargains" <[email address]>
To: [email address]
CC:

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cmcwong  
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From: cmcwong
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:42:55 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Nov 15 2008 2:42 am
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
Glad I'm not the only one having the problem.  I have e-mail coming in
from a Yahoo account (@yahoo.es)--the e-mails being forwarded from
this account were the only ones to arrive with a "no subject" and "no
sender"--starting 11/14 in the morning.  Do we have any idea when this
will be fixed?  A little frustrating... :-/

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GIZMO-LA  
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From: GIZMO-LA
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:19:18 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Nov 15 2008 6:19 am
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
I am having the exact problem here, and guess what; I have my Yahoo
emails sent to my gmail...

Is there any thing I should do that you guys have done? should I
contact Gmail team??

TY

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 More options Nov 15 2008, 7:59 am
From: Fiddlah1
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:59:01 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Nov 15 2008 7:59 am
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
contact them if you can...
i've tried for 2 years when there's a problem.
good luck...

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 More options Nov 15 2008, 8:35 am
From: pk de Cville
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:35:56 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Nov 15 2008 8:35 am
Subject: Emails arriving no subject no sender
I'm getting msgs w/o sender too and the msg body is html source code.

I'm forwarding email from my yahoo account.

This happens with about 5% of my messages. 50% of my SeekingAlpha.com
messages.

Started sometime on 11/13 I think.

Good Luck G Team


 
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Chip Christian  
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From: Chip Christian
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:12:44 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Nov 15 2008 2:12 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
Interesting...  It *is* only emails forwarded through Yahoo.  Updating
my Yahoo groups memberships now...

 
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 More options Nov 15 2008, 3:58 pm
From: Thomas Resing
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:58:41 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Nov 15 2008 3:58 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
Where is the GMail team?

I just found out my wife has some messages with the same Unknown
Sender No Subject issue. We both forward our old yahoo accounts to
GMail. I hope someone from Google pays attention to this thread.

If we don't hear that Google is at least working on this issue they
are in danger of losing us back to Yahoo Mail. I just went to check
the settings on my Yahoo Mail and found out that their searching is
much improved and has some features we are lacking in GMail. I
especially like the list that filters by senders, date ranges and
others from your search results.

-Tom

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sheridan draper  
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 More options Nov 15 2008, 4:38 pm
From: sheridan draper
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:38:50 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Nov 15 2008 4:38 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
I forward email from an old yahoo account and it's happening to me
too.

Do we know whether google has even been contacted?  I tried finding a
contact link for them and got nowhere.  They make it very difficult to
report a problem!

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From: Heather2222
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:00:11 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Nov 15 2008 5:00 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
I'm having the same problem too, getting emails with unknown sender
and no subject, and I also
have mail forwarded from yahoo.  I hope we get an answer soon about
this!

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From: sheridan draper
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:56:55 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Nov 15 2008 5:56 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
Here is how you contact google support:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?direct=1&group=bugflow_...

I just did but think the more who report this problem the better!  In
the summary line please make sure to enter the words "yahoo",
"forwarded", "subject" and "sender".

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 More options Nov 15 2008, 6:47 pm
From: cmcwong
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:47:02 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sat, Nov 15 2008 6:47 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
Adding on to sheridan's suggestion, let's keep our submissions
uniform:

Brief summary: "yahoo mail forwarded- no subject and no sender"

What action were you performing: "Receiving forwarded e-mails to gmail
from yahoo."

What error/error message did you see: "E-mails arrived with "no
subject" and "no sender"."

Thanks for the link sheridan!

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cmcwong  
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From: cmcwong
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:28:17 -0800 (PST)
Local: Mon, Nov 17 2008 7:28 pm
Subject: Re: Emails arriving no subject no sender
Looks like this has been resolved? *knock on wood*.  I have
successfully received forwarded Yahoo mails to my Gmail account over
the past couple of days.  How about everyone else?

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