I've seen several reports in other newsgroups of Hotmail users saying
that messages that they are sending are arriving empty. They hadn't
mentioned that they were forwarded messages. But sounds more like a
Hotmail issue and not specific to your friend.

I'm a little confused by your example. I presume that your friend is
Marlene and you are cbress.

I'm guessing that you cut out a lot at the top of the message source.
From the look of it, there should have been a section

------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C890C3.72D0D410
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

----- Original Message -----
From: Marlene
To: cbress@
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 10:56 AM
Subject: FW: MOSQUITOES

It looks like Marlene is forwarding a message from her Sent folder that
she previously forwarded to you. Perhaps you had her do that as a test.

Is there any problem if she starts a new message rather than forwarding?

What about replies?

What if you send her a simple text message and have her forward it back
to you?

In any case, this doesn't seem related to Outlook Express and is a
Hotmail web problem.

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"Charlie Bress" wrote in message
...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Santovec"
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlooke xpress
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 3:20 PM
Subject: Forwarding mail


Are you saying that your neighbor is using Hotmail or your are or
both?

She is using Hotmail. I am not.

Is she and/or you using Outlook Express to access Hotmail or the
Hotmail web site?

She gets to hotmail via MSN.com

Once she starts the forward and before sending, does she see the
message text in the message composition window?

The message to be forwarded appears in the composition window.


After sending, does she see the message text in the Sent Items
folder?

No! and sending it to herself also comes up empty.


I presume that you are receiving one of these messages and not seeing
the message text. If you look at the Message Source (Ctrl-F3 in OE)
do you see the missing text?

I looked at one she sent to me and there was no text


Do you see any indication of an attachment?

Not at all.

Something I noticed (I just got back from a first hand look) is that
the Hotmail screen says "text only". Looking at OE the option for
email is checked for HTML. I could not find any place in the Hotmail
setup that would have set it to text only. This whole problem started
about 10 days ago. She had twoAV programs installed. I tried deleting
them both. The free one left peacefully, but good old Norton leaves
pieces of itelf everywhere. Some files can't easily be removed because
they are in use even though I removed Norton from the start menu and
rebooted

Below is the source from one she sent to me. The email addys have been
scrubbed a bit for privacy.


From: Marlene
To: cbress@
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 10:56 AM
Subject: FW: MOSQUITOES


This is where the email should be

-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
-------
Express yourself with free Messenger emoticons. Get them today!
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Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
HTMLHEAD
META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1"
STYLE.hmmessage P {
PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: =
0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px
}
BODY.hmmessage {
FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma
}
/STYLE

META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16608" name=3DGENERATOR/HEAD
BODY class=3Dhmmessage bgColor=3D#ffffff
DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D3/FONT /DIV
DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"----- Original Message -----=20
DIV style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"BFrom:/B
A=20
title=3D =
"Marlene St.=20
Pierre/A /DIV
DIVBTo:/B A =20
href=3D"mailto:cbress@"cbress@/A /DIV
DIVBSent:/B Friday, March 28, 2008 10:56 AM/DIV
DIVBSubject:/B FW: MOSQUITOES/DIV/DIV
DIVBR/DIVBR
HR
Express yourself with free Messenger emoticons. A=20
href=3D"http://g.msn.ca/ca55/207" target=3D_newGet them today!/A =
/BODY/HTML

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