This is what's happening. It usually happens with the Eudora client or
recently the Netscape Messenger client.
Is there a thread in the qmail archive that discusses this?
Paul D. Farber II
Farber Technology
717-628-5303
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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 05:15:07PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote:
>
> > they check mail it would say downloading 1 of 16 but just hang. I usually
> > 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,
> > but it was written 96/97 timeframe).
>
> I have similar problems with users who are no longer able to
> download their mail and the mua (or is it qmail-pop3d ?) hangs
> when retrieving a specific mail.
>
> the specific mail usually contains a dot on a line by itself
> which makes qmail-pop3d think, it had reached the end of the
> message (or maybe the mua? i've seen the problem with netscape
> as well as with microsoft products).
>
> How is it possible for mails with these dots to appear in
> emails? Shouldn't qmail care for a proper line-format?
>
> has anybody found a solution to the problem?
>
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