Ron and all,
I occasionally end up with offensive mail in my POP3 stuff too. And
since I don't have dozeware I found there is another solution.
If your ISP is using old Apache POP3 software, remind them it is time to
upgrade so that the POP3 messages are maintained in a database rather
than a single flatfile. This will allow each message to be DELE at the
time the command is sent, rather than waiting for the QUIT command.
If your ISP is using dozeware, bend over and pucker up ...
However, the cure is available.
http://www.mailstart.com
You can go there and, with a bit of patience, download all your mail
into the website. You can then delete the mail you know you already
have on your HDD, attempt to read the offending/offensive piece of mail,
and delete *that* sucker too, so it no longer will interfere with your
normal POP3 download.
If you use the site correctly [be patient with it ... all that slow
moving html and such] you should be able to then go back to POP3 and get
the balance of you e-mail, no dupes [unless you missed one] and no
hangups because of bad file.
l.d.
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On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 08:11:34 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote:
> 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
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