Thanks. Sent it up to QA. We'll run it against v5.07.
Bob
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 18:05:25 +0200
>Hi all and especially V-,
>
>i found an interesting failure today while letting some users send mails using web
>messaging. Since there was only one user active when web messaging service died at
>least every 5 minutes we could track down the cause which is definitley leading to a
>crashed web service of IMail.
>
>We found that this particular user had a machine running Windows95 together with MSIE
>3.x. Whenever he tried to send a message (using his browser) with an destination
>address which contains a dash the web messaging service died as soon as user clicked
>on �Send�. We then moved to a box which runs WinNT Workstation (SP3) as well as MSIE
>3.x. This one could send as normal. We moved back to the PC running Win95 and
>upgraded MSIE 3.x to MSIE 5.0. After that upgrade there was no problem anymore
>sending to addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>I don�t know if any other browser from Netscape or other vendors does lead to the
>same problem. Most of the machines in this network only have MSIE (versions 3.x up to
>5.0) or Netscape Communicator 4.x installed. It seems that these machines do not
>crash web messaging.
>
>You should check if your users do use MSIE 3.x and try to send to addresses
>containing a dash.
>
>Ruediger Sobeck
>
>
>
>>Ws�
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R. Stull
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Ipswitch, Inc.
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