Hi Folks,
I have a correspondant whose emails to me sometimes fail to download
cleanly with Arachne (1.66). The download proceeds until about the end
of the offending message - then stops dead and will not go any further.
Clicking on "Abort Download" returns control to me, and the downloaded email is
found in the Inbox.
None of the mail in my server mailbox is deleted, so this
effectively blocks ALL my following mail from getting to me. I can get
around this by firing up Win 3.1 (ouch !) and using Netscape (ouch !!), and
although this will clear the backlog of mail, even Netscape (3.03) is not happy
to display the offending email. It is displayed very briefly, then the message-
text window goes blank.
Now: My correspondant uses two email clients and only one has this
problem (so it's not her mail server). The offending email is written
and sent with (you guessed it) a Microsoft product. I quote the
headers:
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Received: from mail.mato.com (Mail.mato.com [199.240.78.3])
> by server2.valylink.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10321
> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:18:41 -1000
> Received: from (xxxx) [199.240.159.88]
> by mail.mato.com with smtp
> id 13gDrK-0003Ro-00; Mon, 02 Oct 2000 16:14:54 -0600
> Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 16:18:53 -0600
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: xxxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Ron Clarke'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: First scanned pix
> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 16:18:45 -0600
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-Mato: Delivery by Altaire Enterprises, Inc.
> Status: O
Can anyone work out what is happening here ? My techie friend who does
work for my ISP has cleared this blockage before (at the ISP's machinery), and
tells me that there is a corrupted character (actually, a corrupted " . ") at
the end of the blocking email. Can we blame Billy again ? Or can our
favourite browser learn to deal with this glitch ?
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
