Blank Emails?

[Stevescat]

Received two emails this week (Mon & Wed) from webmaster[at]idnetters.co.uk with an empty subject line and  empty body. Just curious as to what might be generating them.

edit to change @ to [at] in email address]

[J!ll]

Notification of your post or reply 

To alter go to profile, notifications, reply.

[Stevescat]

Thanks Jill,

Can't say I remember asking for replies, but nevertheless, what use is a blank email? Guess I can turn this function off in profiles.

[J!ll]

To show you have a reply? it's late lol so no doubt if I've got it wrong, Rik, will be here in the morning to wring my neck 

[Stevescat]

I've turned that off. Blank emails always look suspicious to me.

[J!ll]

Those are quite safe, had quite a few of them 

[Lance]

The email address webmaster[at]idnetters.co.uk is perfectly safe - but as to why the emails are blank, I don't know!! Not much use are they!

[Rik]

If the post contains just smileys, then the email will be blank.

[Kheldar]

If the post contains just smileys, then the email will be blank.

Rik to the rescue with the answer 

[J!ll]

He hasn't found his star yet 

[Rik]

I only found out because I have had a few, Kheldar.

[Rik]

He hasn't found his star yet 

I married my star 35 years ago, Jill.

[Kheldar]

He hasn't found his star yet 

ahha i was gonna say he needs to wait for Jill to arrive and award the star 

I married my star 35 years ago, Jill.

my god how long !

*mutters less for a life sentence to himself in the corner*

[Rik]

my god how long !

*mutters less for a life sentence to himself in the corner*

Thirty-five years on July 1. I think of it more as a life commitment than a life sentence.

[Rik]

Received two emails this week (Mon & Wed) from webmaster[at]idnetters.co.uk with an empty subject line and  empty body. Just curious as to what might be generating them.

I originally posted that this is caused by a reply to your post which contains only smileys. However, now I'm fully awake, I've re-read your post and the blank subject line finally caught my attention. I've never seen an email with a blank subject as well, so I'm not sure what is triggering them. Do you have any of the emails still?

[J!ll]

Well I get them if I ask to be notified of a reply. Rik, can you not do the same and see the blank email for yourself? 

[Rik]

I received the email notifying me of your post, Jill. It had the topic in the subject line and your post in the message body. Had you posted with just a smiley, the message body would have been blank, but not the subject line. It's that which is puzzling me - possibly it's to do with the way we, individually, have set up our notification options?

[J!ll]

Mine are always blank, makes no difference if I ask to be notified after posting (here) or going to profile. Not sure if I am making sense, but I can stop them.

[J!ll]

From :  <webmaster@idnetters.co.uk>
Sent :  12 June 2007 16:11:08
To : 
 
  |  | Trash Can | Inbox




The rest is blank, have deleted my name though

[Rik]

Do you have the fourth box down checked in the notification options, Jill? It's labelled "When sending notification of a reply to a topic, send the post in the email (but please don't reply to these emails.)"

[J!ll]

Had just the first one, but changed it to the first two.

[Rik]

It's the fourth one that counts, I suspect, Jill.

[J!ll]

No I don't have that one ticked! am turning second one off now, getting too many notifications! 

[Rik]

If you could try checking the fourth box please, Jill. I'm pretty sure that is what is making the difference.

[J!ll]

Ok done, wait?