Hi Folks, Thomas,
I wrote:
> From time to time, I, too, get an aborted POP3 download. And the
> abort repeats at the same message number at every further download
> attempt.
Thomas Mueller wrote:
> What particular offending characteristics did the email messages in question
> possess?
It varies, but is often a single strange character, that is
interpreted as a "stop downloading" command. And not always the same
strange character.
> Sending a message to the sender of the offending email is not good
> enough if you don't know just what snagged. Just knowing the patient is ill
> is not good enough, we need to know what particular disease.
Agreed. :)
I only send messages about this when the sender is known to have used
the same email client for more than one failure. This is important to
me, because all my email gets locked up when this happens, More often
than not, it has turned out to be Outlook Express that causes the
problem. At least one of my regular correspondants has changed her email
client PERMANENTLY, from OE to something else, because of this problem.
Now, why doesn't that surprise me ?
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke
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