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Originally Posted by Kymmy
Moldova, if it was a scam then why is it being triggered on his test emails??? More likely a corrupt mail database which the warning message was stored on..
Dave, the limit is 10Mb, the 9.7 triggered it as a binary (jpg/exe/zip files) have to be encoded into text to allow them to be abled to send via email which is text based, the encoding adds more data hence a 9.7Mb message goes over the 10Mb limit  As asked though can you forward the full header from one of the emails please (taking out your email addies) |
I am aware that there is a message overhead due to MIME encoding of attachments, thus I deliberately sized my test emails to attempt to trigger further messages.
The header below is interesting in that the detail appears to be suppressed, I have spent a bit of time checking to make sure that this wasn't a "feature" of the rather nasty VISTA Windows Mail email client I have been using on this particular PC, I really must get this machine onto Thunderbird! All the headers for these messages are similar.
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From: admin
Subject: [IMPORTANT] Your mailbox is full
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:45:16 +0100
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 090716-0, 16/07/2009), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
A report has been sent to Virginmail security as suggested by Moldova. I'll post any reply I get from them.
Thanks guys