Old blank emails

[Jim S]

Just received three blank emails - well actually three blank replies to
an unseen email all dated 01/01/1970 at 01:00

Only on Thunderbird to an address I have only had a couple of years.

Weird or explainable?

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Jim S

[Millwood]

01/01/1970 is time 0 for Unix, so don't believe it.

For more detail - Unix represents time as a counter of seconds starting
with 0 at 01/01/1970. The number is signed so dates before the Epoch
can be represented.

[Jeff Barnett]

I received one blank (a "." was the entire body and the from) this
morning and it was dated today. Expanding the header showed nothing
useful. I wonder if this is a common manifestation of a TB bug or some
spam email because we have posted to a common forum such as the ones
mozilla provides?
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Jeff Barnett

[David E. Ross]

I get blank E-mail messages. Generally, they are HTML-formatted and
large, often with inline images. They are from companies where I do
business. I suspect there is a non-standard character in the message
that causes it to truncate.

Under Disk Space in my account settings, I checked the checkbox for "To
save disk space, do not download: Messages larger than" with 75 in the
selection area. The fragment of such messages is not blank; but if I
request Thunderbird to download the entire message, the result is
entirely blank.

When I see a large message from one of those companies that seems to
send blank messages, I do not request Thunderbird to download the entire
message. Instead, I use my ISP's webmail to access the message and
download it as an .eml file. I can then copy the .eml file and paste it
into Thunderbird to read the message. I also lodge a complaint with the
company about their "blank" messages.

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David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>