How to create a fake mailer-daemon error message

[feverplanet]

Ooooh boy. I've done it now. I missed a deadline for emailing a document to someone, and now I'm looking for a way to get it to them, with the excuse that there was a server delay(??) or SOMETHING that prevented the email from arriving in their mailbox before the appointed hour.

I remember once receiving an email from another person, with the a system label that told me the email had been sent days earlier, but had been delayed somehow (through no fault of the sender)

Does anyone know how I could go about faking that kind of message convincingly? Calling all computer geniuses...

Ug, DIRE STRAITS!

 

[irishwoody]

Not confining it but you could send a message to wrong address and see response from recipients email server. Then edit response change dates and claim your response was caught in your spam filter so you didn't know it wasnt received. Be warned if you get found out you will seen as deceitful and manipulative and untrustworthy so price might be to high to pay. Perhaps you can claim email was in your outbox but you thought you had sent it. I DON'T claim to be 100% honest all the time but if it was me might be better to come clean or look for a better excuse. Woody

 

[roomfor1more]

With an email there is a header. A header shows the route that the email took from the sender to the receiver. This means if you try to fake it and they look at the header they will know that you faked it. Also you would need to know the email address for server messages, which would have to go in the From: line (e.g. postmaster@xxx.com). Then you would have to type in a brief message that states something like: Server busy, message has not been relayed to (email address). All of this would rely on the fact they would not check either the header nor would they check with IT to see if there were problems with emails. My feeling it is risky and has a low chance of being successful.

 

[feverplanet]

Not confining it but you could send a message to wrong address and see response from recipients email server. Then edit response change dates and claim your response was caught in your spam filter so you didn't know it wasnt received. Be warned if you get found out you will seen as deceitful and manipulative and untrustworthy so price might be to high to pay. Perhaps you can claim email was in your outbox but you thought you had sent it. I DON'T claim to be 100% honest all the time but if it was me might be better to come clean or look for a better excuse. Woody

Thank you and thank you for not judging me too harsh.. I know. I'm weighing the consequences of being found out AND the consequences of just giving up. And both make me wince. Thanks for giving it to me straight. Evaluating a server response makes sense.

With an email there is a header. A header shows the route that the email took from the sender to the receiver. This means if you try to fake it and they look at the header they will know that you faked it. Also you would need to know the email address for server messages, which would have to go in the From: line (e.g. postmaster@xxx.com). Then you would have to type in a brief message that states something like: Server busy, message has not been relayed to (email address). All of this would rely on the fact they would not check either the header nor would they check with IT to see if there were problems with emails. My feeling it is risky and has a low chance of being successful.

I was thinking the same thing -- and this person IS the type to check with IT.

The other email route would be...claiming the message was silently dropped, because of a virus on my machine that would have been potentially carried to the recipient through my attachment. Hence, they never received it or an error message?


and a flood a terrible flood

 

[feverplanet]

Oh my god I'm a terrible person! If this lateness mess doesn't kill me the guilt will!

 

[Eilan]

Not confining it but you could send a message to wrong address and see response from recipients email server. Then edit response change dates and claim your response was caught in your spam filter so you didn't know it wasnt received. Be warned if you get found out you will seen as deceitful and manipulative and untrustworthy so price might be to high to pay. Perhaps you can claim email was in your outbox but you thought you had sent it. I DON'T claim to be 100% honest all the time but if it was me might be better to come clean or look for a better excuse. Woody

Yeah. Do you want to be seen as merely lazy or as both lazy and dishonest?

 

[Lizzie_Borden]

Man up and own being late.

Apologise. Pray.

 

[Sensualdreamer]

Wow...don't be a liar just own it.