Emails with incomplete headers will crash Outlook

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XPclump

Spam is bad enough, but when some poorly configured spambots spew out just
incomplete headers they always crash Outlook.
I'm running fully-patched XP Pro and Outlook 2003 SP2.
Below is the sort of email which will cause Outlook to shut down (I
downloaded this with another email program then deleted it on my POP3 server
before collecting my emails with Outlook). Note, I have changed my domain
name to mungedname..

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from punt3.mail.demon.net by mailstore
for (e-mail address removed) id 1ITCJ9-45Bknw-02-Dae;
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:01:47 +0000
Received: from [194.217.242.211] (lhlo=lon1-hub.mail.demon.net)
by punt3.mail.demon.net with lmtp id 1ITCJ9-45Bknw-02
for (e-mail address removed);
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:01:47 +0000
Received: from [85.176.130.35] (helo=e176130035.adsl.alicedsl.de)
by lon1-hub.mail.demon.net with smtp id 1ITCJ8-0003Q4-T0
for (e-mail address removed); Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:01:47 +0000
Received: from comptech-2000.com (unknown [130.125.90.230])
by oldcatdns.com with SMTP id N[10


That's it. That's where the "email" ends, halfway through the "Received:"
line.

Has anyone else suffered this problem? Is there a simple workaround for it?
It's a real pain to download headers with another program to identify and
delete any that might crash my mail collection..
 

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