Re: Mysterious message in Drafts folder.

Thanks for the link, saves searching :-)

But it doesn't explain how Annie's message arrived on my computer, in my
Drafts folder.
I have never seen that message, my name isn't in the list.

Normally when there is a message in the Drafts folder, Windows Live Mail
will prompt me to send it when I close the program.
No such thing happened.

I have left the message sitting there for a few days, to see if WLM notices
there is an unsent message, nope, nothing.

I have run a full scan, which came up clean.

It's a mystery!
Thanks for responding.

Grenou
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> "Grenou" <> wrote in message
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>> I found this in my Drafts folder a few days ago:
>>
>> Font used - Times New Roman 12.
>>
>>
>> "Annie, one easy thing to try is to download and run Autoruns from
>> Microsoft
>> or CNET. It is a small standalone utility that is free and needs no
>> installation, but can be run from your downloads folder. Select the Logon
>> tab and see if you can spot something that is hogging your resources.
>> Uncheck any item you can do without - you can always run Autoruns again
>> and
>> re-check the item if you have regrets. When you make changes you will be
>> asked to elevate to administrator from within Autoruns - consent to that
>> as
>> required. Expand the Autoruns window so that the columns have plenty of
>> width and right click on an item for yet more information. When you are
>> happy with a configuration you can if you wish delete items that you had
>> previously unchecked to de-clutter the display, though that's just
>> cosmetic."
>>
>>
>> I have never seen this before, I certainly didn't write this.
>> I use Comic Sans as my default font.
>> The message is dated 14th November 09.
>>
>> It's a mystery how it got there.
>>
>> Does anyone recognise their words?
>> Can anyone throw any light on how this could have happened?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Grenou (Windows 7 - Windows Live Mail)
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"Grenou" <> wrote in message news:...
> Thanks for the link, saves searching :-)
>
> But it doesn't explain how Annie's message arrived on my computer, in my Drafts folder.

> I have never seen that message, my name isn't in the list.


But you do subscribe to that newsgroup?
And may have opened it sometime since the message would
have arrived in it? Then you wouldn't have to have read it,
just have accidentally opened it in a reply window and then
cautiously saved it when closing your WLMail windows.

BTW there is some mechanism in WLMail which I haven't yet
completely figured out, which involves a mouse gesture or
something which does that and annoys me each time it happens.
It seems to happen when I am trying to quickly mark new threads
Watched or Ignored (for sorting purposes).
I suspect it is usually the latter, e.g. doubleclicking on the
Watched Conversation column to try to mark a spam message
Ignored; then perversely it might open up as a reply! In fact,
it may happen only when the message is not downloaded,
e.g. if I'm doing it only on a header. I'll try to pay more attention
to how it happens and report back here if I figure it out.


>
> Normally when there is a message in the Drafts folder, Windows Live Mail will prompt me to send it when I close the program.
> No such thing happened.


You could get a prompt about a message in the Outbox
but not Drafts.


>
> I have left the message sitting there for a few days, to see if WLM notices there is an unsent message, nope, nothing.


Good because it shouldn't happen. ; )


>
> I have run a full scan, which came up clean.
>
> It's a mystery!


Normally you can't see a Drafts message's full source.
If you want to do that it is pretty easy, just use Forward
as Attachment and then drag the attachment to an open
Notepad window. E.g. doing that would probably show
you your name in its From: header. ; )


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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