I've had similar trouble with a message containing a huge number off adresses in the to: field (hundreds). (And since it was on a remote system I had to take a train to fix it... Also spent some time on the phone talking someone through a procedure to find a message on hdd that just would't open, using dosshell to sort by date to identify the culprit)
BRB At 14:53 1-10-01 +0000, you 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/ > > >
