Peter De Schrijver wrote: > > I've been running courier for a long time now (>5 years), without > real problems. Knock on wood. > > The last couple of months I'm having trouble with malformed mails > causing outlook to choke on receiving mail. > > Looking at the mails I see that they don't have a body (!), and > therefore are very small. The mail just stops after the headers. > Outlook seems to wait forever for such mails, and I suppose it's > just waiting for a body which never arrives. > > How can I prevent this from happening? Till now I manually delete > the mails in question, and that is getting annoying ! Is there a way > to deny such mails in the first place?
Yea, Outlook has some annoying problems. I've run into the same thing. What I did was write a small program which scans all the maildirs and removes any messages that don't have a body (ie: no blank lines in the file). Since I'm paranoid, I am copying them to a directory where I can review and delete them, but so far I haven't seen anything besides junk. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any other solution to this problem, but it's been working well for me for quite a while now. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
