Just this past week I've been seeing some `hanging' again.
We use cucipop, qmail, and mbox on shell accounts (pop
only accounts use maildir and I've not seen hanging there).
It does **seem** to relate to mime/multipart but the reports
are so rare I can't tell if they're even real.
> >> have to erase the msgs for mail to work agian. I remember reading on the
> >> list about some eudora problems, but this is a later version (not sure,
>
> We had problems with Eudora hanging on some messages. This was messages
> with bad multipart/mime, specifically, there was no end boundary or the
> end boundary was not correct. Happened rarely, and clearly a Eudora
> design bug.
>
> Look at the top message in the Maildir for this problem. Delete it
> (after printing it from e.g. Mutt/Pine) and everything should work.
> Sorry, I don't remember the sending MUA - just wrote to the sender
> himself.
>
> We had problems with another pop3 server and mbox where mbox corruption
> would cause a similar hang with all clients. After switching to
> qmail-pop3d and Maildir (>> a year ago) we've had no server side
> problems.
>
> Does anybody out there [using qmail] still use mbox delivery for a pop3
> server? Why?
>
>
> -Sincerely, Fred
>
> (Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)
>
>
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