Bastiaan,
I assume that 500 KB .pps email file you downloaded only with great difficulty
was base64-encoded, so to the email client, .pps had no special significance.
I've had a few bigger emails, downloaded successfully, but not with Arachne/
Insight. As for the difference between "to kill" and "to delete" a file, I
guess that depends on the specific software. From what I hear on this list, I
don't trust Arachne/Insight with my email!
to Ron Clarke:
In my days using Ultimail Lite in OS/2 Warp 4, I remember one message showed a
face character (ASCII 1 or 2) at the beginning of the message body, but only
some of the time, not on every viewing. But that message did not snag the
download.
> 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.
I've received lots of mail and news messages sent by Outlook Express, and some
of them contained quoted-printable, HTML and other funny stuff, but those
messages didn't snag my download. If you were using Arachne/Insight when you
got stuck, complain to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe somebody needs to assemble a list of POP3 clients in DOS and Linux that
get stuck on download, so we know what is trustworthy with our mail. Now I
wonder, has anybody hit a snag downloading mail with Outlook Express?
