> > I have received several e-mails from this list that cause fetchmail to > stall. There is something wrong with the individual e-mails, as Hotmail > can't quite handle them either. Although Hotmail retrieves them from the > POP server, the web browser stalls while displaying them. > > I just deleted the first three (by hitting control C then typing > "fetchmail" again, then it regards the message as seen), but decided to > look at the last two and find out what was going on. They're both from > this list, and both have "WYSIWYG Word Processor" as their subject. > What's more, both stall while loading after the lines "-----BEGIN GEEK > CODE BLOCK-----" and "Version 3.1" > > I'm going to guess that this "geek code block" is responsible for the > problems, since both Hotmail and fetchmail have problems with the same > messages. I'm not accusing anyone of doing this on purpose or anything. > > I would like to stay on this list, but it's not worth putting up with > e-mail problems. Please do your best to make sure that what you send is > not going to cause anyone problems. If e-mail you have sent is the > culprit, you will be receiving e-mail from me politely asking you not to > jam up my e-mail and asking for information that will help me piece > together the cause of the problem. > > Has anyone else had this problem with their mail? Could someone who > understands what is causing this problem explain it to me?
Of course I fogot to write down the error message, but I also had problems getting fetchmail to get three messages (they were all from the same person). The error message was something like: SMTP error: hostname must resolve and it promptly refused to fetch any mail. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO + ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null