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Email Received on Yahoo shows HTML code, not a proper message
Email sent to a Yahoo user are received showing HTML formatting.
Is there a way to determine the cause?
Possible clues:
a CC: to an AOL user
An attachment
Here is a sample of what the message looks like, followed by the raw message:
(Thanks)
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On October 19, 2018 at 12:13 PM Office Person <mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com mailto:mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.c om > wrote:
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Dear Debbie,
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Please find attached the initial Listing of Subject Matters, signed by Mxxxxx.
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X-Originating-IP: [209.17.115.44]
Authentication-Results: mta4077.mail.gq1.yahoo.com from=dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.c om; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.c om; dkim=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO atl4mhob06.registeredsite. com) (209.17.115.44)
by mta4077.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 16:17:11 +0000
Received: from null ([10.30.71.93])
by atl4mhob06.registeredsite. com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w9JGH8QC020045
(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA256 bits=256 verify=NO);
Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:17:08 -0400
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:17:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: "info dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com" <info@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn. com>
Reply-To: "info dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com" <info@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn. com>
To: Office Person <mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Mr. & Mrs. Person Sending" <pxxxxxxxxxt@aol.com>
Message-ID: <421942086.137463.15399658 28334@webm ail6.netwo rksolution semail.com >
In-Reply-To: <3B0893C1-66D3-47DB-B81B-9 FB53D28ED2 D@yahoo.co m>
References: <D5AFD246-C829-4676-8681-E BCD58A6D96 0@aol.com>
<434772167.41131.153927637 1402@webma il6.networ ksolutions email.com>
<3B0893C1-66D3-47DB-B81B-9 FB53D28ED2 D@yahoo.co m>
Subject: Re: Subject Matter
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boundary="----=_Part_13746 2_13171875 21.1539965 828328"
X-Priority: 3
Importance: Medium
X-Mailer: Open-Xchange Mailer v7.8.4-Rev41
X-Originating-Client: open-xchange-appsuite
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Thanks!
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On October 19, 2018 at 12:13 PM Office Person <mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com mailto:mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.c om > wrote:
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Dear Debbie,
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Please find attached the initial Listing of Subject Matters, signed by Mxxxxx.
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I will be in touch soon about additional Listings as the project develops.
</div>
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Best and kind regards,
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<div class="">
Amy Saxxxxy
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<p class="">Good Afternoon,</p>
<p class="">Please complete the attached Listing of Subject Matter form and return it to our office. </p>
<p class="">This form enables us to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Subject Matter work completed xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.</p>
<p class="">Thank you!</p>
<p class="">Debbie</p>
</div>
<span id="cid:AF7F2882-6F13-4B0D -ADDC-2710 991AE68E@n yc.rr.com mailto:AF7F2882-6F13-4B0D- ADDC-27109 91AE68E@ny c.rr.com "><Wxxxxxx Subject Mattermenet.pdf></span>
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Is there a way to determine the cause?
Possible clues:
a CC: to an AOL user
An attachment
Here is a sample of what the message looks like, followed by the raw message:
(Thanks)
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">
On October 19, 2018 at 12:13 PM Office Person <mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com mailto:mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.c
<br>
<br>
<div class="">
Dear Debbie,
</div>
<div class="">
<br class="">
</div>
<div class="">
Please find attached the initial Listing of Subject Matters, signed by Mxxxxx.
</div>
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Raw Message below:
X-Apparently-To: mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 16:17:12 +0000
Return-Path: <info@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.
Received-SPF: none (domain of dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com does not designate permitted sender hosts)
X-YMailISG: qKG.UH8WLDs.FOsB1cMyFkzusa
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X-Originating-IP: [209.17.115.44]
Authentication-Results: mta4077.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO atl4mhob06.registeredsite.
by mta4077.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
Received: from null ([10.30.71.93])
by atl4mhob06.registeredsite.
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Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:17:08 -0400
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:17:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: "info dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com" <info@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.
Reply-To: "info dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.com" <info@dxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxn.
To: Office Person <mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Mr. & Mrs. Person Sending" <pxxxxxxxxxt@aol.com>
Message-ID: <421942086.137463.15399658
In-Reply-To: <3B0893C1-66D3-47DB-B81B-9
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Subject: Re: Subject Matter
MIME-Version: 1.0
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boundary="----=_Part_13746
X-Priority: 3
Importance: Medium
X-Mailer: Open-Xchange Mailer v7.8.4-Rev41
X-Originating-Client: open-xchange-appsuite
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On October 19, 2018 at 12:13 PM Office Person <mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com mailto:mxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.c
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Dear Debbie,
</div>
<div class="">
<br class="">
</div>
<div class="">
Please find attached the initial Listing of Subject Matters, signed by Mxxxxx.
</div>
<div class="">
I will be in touch soon about additional Listings as the project develops.
</div>
<div class="">
<br class="">
</div>
<div class="">
Best and kind regards,
</div>
<div class="">
Amy Saxxxxy
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On Oct 11, 2018, at 12:46 PM, info
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<p class="">Good Afternoon,</p>
<p class="">Please complete the attached Listing of Subject Matter form and return it to our office. </p>
<p class="">This form enables us to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Subject Matter work completed xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.</p>
<p class="">Thank you!</p>
<p class="">Debbie</p>
</div>
<span id="cid:AF7F2882-6F13-4B0D
</div>
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ASKER
Marcus - do you have an idea if the sender's email is creating a message with incorrect HTML or if Yahoo is mis-reading the message? Could this just have been caused by some odd error on the sender?
This can only be down to the sender using confused (to use a generous term!) HTML.
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
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Your multipart sub-elements should not have the `MIME-Version: 1.0` headers; only the root element needs that.
Your HTML body has a random mix of entity escaping and raw HTML. Nearly all of those entities should not be entities. For example where you have `<br><br>` it should just be `<br><br>`. In short, you need to look at how you are constructing your message body.
I'd recommend using a library such as PHPMailer that can do all this encoding correctly for you; you shouldn't be doing it yourself.