I just got a strange email from IB on Friday. It was empty as far as I could tell (the body contained no text, image, file or anything else) and was from "from@interactivebrokers.com" an address I've never received anything 'from' IB before! The subject heading was "subject". Anyone else receive this? whatup?
Header as follows (The XXX'ed out part is my email): MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mx1.interactivebrokers.com ([206.106.137.9]) by mc5-f41.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:01:07 -0800 Received: from gw1.interactivebrokers.com (firewall-user@gw1.interactivebrokers.com [206.106.137.5])by mx1.interactivebrokers.com (Switch-3.1.2/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id i09M17PR021730for <XXXXXXXX@XXXXX.com>; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:01:07 -0500 (EST) Received: (from uucp@localhost)by gw1.interactivebrokers.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id i09M16b17201for <XXXXXXXX@XXXXX.com>; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:01:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from nodnsquery(192.9.217.226) by gw1.interactivebrokers.com via csmap (V6.0)id srcAAAxhaaLH; Fri, 9 Jan 04 17:01:04 -0500 Received: (from ibmail@localhost)by ibmkt1.ib (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id i09M13R16428;Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:01:03 -0500 (EST) X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jFB7Stufqp0pUHLOeZ0sPkC Message-Id: <200401092201.i09M13R16428@ibmkt1.ib> Return-Path: ibmail@interactivebrokers.com X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Jan 2004 22:01:07.0930 (UTC) FILETIME=[159E3BA0:01C3D6FC]
This is absolutely hilarious. I e-mailed them two days ago and have not gotten a return e-mail yet, and your saying that you got one from them and it says nothing. Maybe it was the reply to my e-mail; with no information in it, it sounds exactly what they would send to me.
ok maybe its time to let this thread die as it seems others also got it as well. All I was trying to accomplish was to see if this was a one time fluke involving my account (in which case I would have been alarmed) or a system wide error. As it seems it was the latter, I think we should just let it go. Thanks everyone.