When sending emails from my pc the computer has started to generate it's own version of my message?

Question

This version is followed by the message which I've sent. The computer version starts off (after the usual From/To/Subject/Date): MIME-Version:1.0 Received:from web..........this goes on to lots of stuff which I don't understand and finishes FILETIME=[various numbers and letters]

When I check my messages sent box this stuff doesn't appear and I only found out about it because I was informed by the recipients.

Although my message reaches the recipient, it's rather un-nerving for them to be confronted by all this gibberish before they get to my message.

Does anybody know what's happening and how I can stop it?

PS. Thanks for suggestions that it may be the header that's coming up, but when I look at the headers for the emails in question they are much shorter than what appeared when opened by the recipient - it's like the whole message has been encoded.

Answer 1

Your recipient are seeing the header from your e-mail message. Chances are the problem is on your recipient's side not yours.

The gibberish you are describing is in all e-mails, it is header information that is attached to the message as it is routed through the various e-mail servers on its way from you to your recipient.

Your e-mail program will show you this header information on messages that you have received, typically under properties. For example, in Outlook right-click on a message in your in-box, then choose Options from the pop-up menu. In the dialog box that opens you will see a box showing the Internet Header, this is the gibberish your recipients are seeing.

REGARDING YOUR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Your observation that the header information is being altered on its way from you to your recipient is correct. Each server that handles the e-mail enroute from you to your recipient adds to the header information. It is like the tracking information from UPS or FedEx. If you have ever tracked your package you see the log gets longer as UPS checks in the package at each center, then checks it out. This tracking log is like the header information in an e-mail.

So, for example, if you send the same message to two recipients, they will have different header information because the e-mail will have taken two different routes to get to them.

Answer 2

It sounds like you are describing the e-mail header information. This information is needed by the computers, so they know where to send the message. It is included on every email message sent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Internet_e-mail_header
It is not a problem you can fix, your recipients need to turn off "full headers". Depending on their email client, it works differently, but a search of "header" in the help file should produce some results.

Answer 3

...what I do when something weird happens is write an email and send it to myself, if it comes out ok on my machine after recieveing it, then I take it that my machine is ok and it is the other persons machine in the way it decodes it

Answer 4

Be kind to all machines or when they take over the world, they'll remember you. Seriously, you need to call a geek.