Chris, Thanks alot. Im going to get Temp reader and I'll do some forensic investigation and check to see if those emails meet either of those criteria.
I'll let you know and if the file is unreadable, I'll forward it to you. Thanks, Philip On 1/8/04 11:52 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent the following message: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chris) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Emailer-Talk) >>I thought I posted this, but it seems not have made it (judging from 0 >>responses). I apologize if it's been seen but no one had an answer) > >You did post it, and I did answer it. (however, I don't honestly recall >if my answer ever came thru, so maybe the failure wasn't on your end). > >>Suddenly yesterday the same thing happened again. I checked to see what >>type of email it was in the middle of downloading and it was something >>from Hotmail again with an attachment. It was from a different person so >>I don't think it's a virus. >> >>Anybody ever hear of anything like this? > >Yes. This is known. The Temp Incoming files can be "bad" and cause >Emailer to crash. At the moment there are two known reasons for this. 1: >The email contains an attachment with a file name longer than 31 >characters. 2: The email has been forwarded many times and not had its >MIME headers removed, so now the headers are more than 9 layers deep. > >In both cases, Temp Reader (you can get it from my web site), can open >the Temp Incoming folder, detect that it is a bad file, and offer to fix >it (as well as show you the contents, and give you the choice of saving >it to text). > >There may be other reasons a Temp Incoming file can be bad, but currently >those are the only two problems I have seen. If anyone finds a bad Temp >Incoming file that Temp Reader can't fix, I'd love to have a copy of it >so I can expand Temp Reader's abilities (just send the file to me as an >attachment to an email). > >-chris ><http://www.mythtech.net> > > > >----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- >Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Received: from rly-xj02.mx.aol.com (rly-xj02.mail.aol.com >[172.20.116.39]) by air-xj02.mail.aol.com (v97.14) with ESMTP id >MAILINXJ22-5033ffd8aa71b1; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:52:04 -0500 >Received: from mythtech.net (mail.mythtech.net [68.165.138.76]) by >rly-xj02.mx.aol.com (v97.10) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXJ23-5033ffd8aa71b1; >Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:51:51 -0500 >Received: from [138.89.147.54] ([138.89.147.54] verified) by mythtech.net >(Stalker SMTP Server 1.8b8) with SMTP id S.0000298065; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 >13:02:15 -0400 >Subject: Re: Emailer Crash with Hotmail >Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:52:33 -0500 >x-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, January 22, 1998 >From: chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Emailer-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-AOL-IP: 68.165.138.76 >X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 0:XXX:XX >X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 0 > Philip W. Hack Vision Unlimited, N.Y. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
