Itself repeating mail- worm???

[Ferryman]

Last night I 've sent someone a mail with the piccy's I took from his car (ok, wasn't a LR;) ), it took me longer than normal to send the 2MB attachment and got twice the message "time-out of the server".
Later that night he called me his incoming mail had repeated itself about 10 times and he was still downloading the files.

On my part I've checked the whole pc with my updated virusscanner including the CF-card from the camera but found nothing.
Is this a worm on either side of the connection?

Tony.

[Saratoga]

If your connection kept dropping because it was a large file it probably duplicated itself in the mail queue.

The best bet is to compress them down into a zip file, or send each email seperately.

It also depends on what his setup is set to. For example, many moons ago I would get email attachments in 200kb chunks and then the mail software would peice all this together at the end...

Find out if they are the same message or different ones?!

Both on broadband? If so it shouldn't have taken that long to send the photos. On dialup I'd probably expect timeouts but they're getting rarer these days anyway!

[Madoobri]

Go on to his ISP`s site & delete it from his mail box there ... or you can go to Mail 2 Web ... www.mail2web.com & delete it that way.

cheers

Madoobri

[TheGurkha]

Doesn't sound like a worm. Sounds like a slow connection and the ISP's mail server getting tired of waiting for the mail to come in. In fact, it sounds like my distant past, I used to get this sort of thing all the time until I went to Home Highway and then on to broadband. But even with broadband, you can get bottlenecks. Although things have the have ability to leave you at high speed, it doesn't mean the other end can accept at high speed. Most big-player ISP's can of course, but even they get congested sometimes.

[Ferryman]

Doesn't sound like a worm. Sounds like a slow connection and the ISP's mail server getting tired of waiting for the mail to come in. In fact, it sounds like my distant past, I used to get this sort of thing all the time until I went to Home Highway and then on to broadband. But even with broadband, you can get bottlenecks. Although things have the have ability to leave you at high speed, it doesn't mean the other end can accept at high speed. Most big-player ISP's can of course, but even they get congested sometimes.
This more sounds like my case, I've got ADSL (Planet) and never had this before.
Must say it's OK now again.
I know the guy I was mailing to does a lot in gaming, wins prizes with puzzles on the net so his pc is a bit of a mess.
Thank you all for the input guys!

Tony.

[Saratoga]

in that case get him to do a bug sweep with adaware and spybot and stuff...