If someone succeeds in actually downloading one these "troublesome messages". Zip it up and send it to me.
I'll try to figure out what's going on. On Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:53:16 +0000, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > Hi List, > so I'am not the only one... > Last night I tried several times to download the e-mail (50 items) and > Arachne stuck every time at message #7... > This morning the same problem and I tried outlook which did not function > at all! > I foned the provider and they send me to a site where all the messages > were... and deleted #7. > Now all is OK downloaded. > But #7 was ANDY's... I don't know #7 contend so I don't know what was > wrong with this message but it sure was annoying and did cost abt. $6 > for the providers helpdesk. (0.75 US$ per minute) > Well I learned how to deleted an item from the e-mail list but took abt > 1:30 hours of time and $7,= on the phone bill. > Who is able to tell Andy what is wrong? > CU all Bastiaan > On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 12:26:02 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: >> I have just spent another half hour trying to figure out why my pop3 log >> shows files to have been deleted but telnet (and Arachne the 2nd time) >> shows the files are still there. I haven't figured it out yet. Going >> in and giving the DELE directly with telnet removes the file, as always. >> BUT in my struggles I have come up with an important question. The >> problems today originated with ANDY -- as has happened before -- and it >> happened with both the message he sent to "Life Raft", and THEN with a >> cc to this list ... so it was a chance contamination. I looked with my >> editor and with the MS DOS 5.0 edit.com and could not see a single >> spurious character in either file. Then I realized that the files >> telnet retreived were "a" files, strictly ASCII by default, just like >> the FTP setup was default "a" ... so a binary inclusion in the original >> file would be stripped out before I received it! >> HERE IS THE QUESTION: Is Arachne downloading mail in binary mode? >> Arachne is *not* using the same code as CUTE TelNet, because if it were >> doing so, the commands SENT to the mail server wouldn't show ... only >> what the server sent would; so Arachne has to be working differently >> than TelNet, and that *difference* is apparently where the problem lies. >> Yes, ANDY uses UNIX PINE to send mail, but I have no problems with mail >> received which is sent by Linux Pine ... so pine should not be the >> culprit. >> l.d. >> -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ > Zendamateurs, kijk eens op de homepage... > http://home.hetnet.nl/~ba8tian/index.html > - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client > - -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ > ------------------------------ -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
