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The compose screen opens with several lines of text and characters. The gibberish will clear, but it will always populate the compose screen when invoked. Example: -- PK!ߤ�lZ [Content_Types].xml �(����n�0E�����Ub袪*�>�-R�{V��Ǽ��QU� l"%3��3Vƃ�ښl �w%�=���^i7+���-d&�0�A�6�l4��L60#�Ò�S O����X��*��V$z�3��3������%p)O�^� ���5}nH"d�s�Xg�L�`���|�ԟ�|�P�rۃs��?�PW��tt4Q+��"�wa���|T\y���,N���U�%���-D/��ܚ��X�ݞ�(�����롵�ɸma;_�O2���cbW�_Յ����iqd��⼭�h�5 �CؤI��͍���Zi����C�>�4��F4�����

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Thinking back, what file type starts with PK? Google stood as my friend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format) It is a zip file.

So I guess the question is what have you done to include a zip file in every email you compose? A signature perhaps?