E-mails with empty text

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

Uh, no..... when viewing on the gmail app, i get an email showing who the
email is from but its blank and theres no message.. no attachment

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:41 AM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com>
wrote:

> Since my email client is configured to show attachments in-line, I get
> these normally and don't have to click on attachments to read the
> messages.  My advice to people who get seemingly blank emails is, look for
> an attachment and open it.  That's where the message is.
>
>
>
> On 10/19/2016 8:35 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>
>> <<On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:10:43 -0400, Sean Smyth <ssmyth@alumni.psu.edu>
>> said:
>>
>> I've noticed that a few posters' e-mails come without text in the message.
>>> Always happens for me with Don A and Sir Waters' posts. I'll see the
>>> preview in my inbox, but nothing when I try to read it. I'm using
>>> off-the-shelf gmail via apps and the website. Any advice? Garrett? I
>>> swear
>>> I'm not this much of a Luddite.
>>>
>> Google "DMARC controversy".
>>
>> Certain large email providers have set things up so that whenever any
>> of their users send mail to a mailing-list or other forwarder -- other
>> than the ones they themselves operate, of course -- other large email
>> providers will generate a bounce rather than accepting it.  The result
>> of this is that whenever any AOL or Yahoo! Mail user sends three
>> messages to a mailing-list, all of the GMail users get automatically
>> unsubscribed.
>>
>> There are two defenses against this.  Either
>>
>> 1) the mailing-list can mangle the sender's address, or
>> 2) the mailing-list can encapsulate the problem messages.
>>
>> Either way the DMARC policy is not invoked and GMail doesn't send
>> bounces.  Since all right-thinking people abhor option (1), I have
>> configured option (2) instead.  This only happens for senders whose
>> email domain publishes a DMARC policy which would otherwise generate
>> bounces.
>>
>> If you read this list via the digest, this issue does not come into
>> play, as the From: address of the digest is at a domain
>> (bostonradio.org) that does not publish a problematic DMARC policy.
>>
>> -GAWollman
>>
>>
>>
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