Folks,
Just a quick update on a problem I queried the list on a few days ago, in
which Outlook sometimes hangs on a message. Doing some extensive tcpdump
tracing and analysis, we've found that Outlook hangs in at least the
following situations:
1) Periods (.) in a message that end up at the very end of a tcp/ip packet
during transport to the Outlook client.
2) Null (zero) characters in a message (not sure if they, too, have to be at
the end of a packet or not.
This appears to be a problem with Outlook 98 and 2000. Installing Office
2000 SR-1 seems to fix the problem, at least in the cases we've seen.
By the way, nulls in messages appear to also hang Eudora (not sure which
version), though we only have one confirmed case of that.
Hope this is useful to somebody out there in qmail land....
Carey Jung
IT Freedom
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512.419.0070, fax 419.0080
