Wierd mail problem...

2002-02-04 Thread Bill Day
I am having a wierd problem.. using 1 of 2 accounts with my ISP's mails ervice the account I used to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] will no longer complete downloads. Gets approximately 3/4 way through the dl of mail (135 of 195 messages) and I get disconnected. This is the wierd part. first it was

Re: Wierd mail problem...

2002-02-04 Thread Mike Andrew
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 00:06, Bill Day wrote: downloads. Gets approximately 3/4 way through the dl of mail (135 of 195 [snip] absolutely unqualified here, but this is typical of an isp who has set the keep-alive wrong. I'ts not retriggering on icmp requests to port 110, just ignoring them. try

Re: Wierd mail problem...

2002-02-04 Thread Bill Day
Already thought about that, and gave it a go again. same problem no matter whats running. I feel it is some rogue piece of mail of some sorts, but cant figure out how it could cause my linux box to do something such as disconnect. Im haveing the isp check it and delete approximate messages.

Re: Wierd mail problem... [Solved]

2002-02-04 Thread Bill Day
Well, it seems to be taken care of now. Some rogue message from co.kr (spam) that everytime I tried to get, no matter what client I used, it would cause my connection to drop. had isp remove all messages in it and all seems good now. Thanks, On Monday 04 February 2002 11:44, you were

Re: Wierd mail problem... [Solved]

2002-02-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 12:05:15PM -0500, Bill Day wrote: Well, it seems to be taken care of now. Some rogue message from co.kr (spam) that everytime I tried to get, no matter what client I used, it would cause my connection to drop. had isp remove all messages in it and all seems good

Re: Wierd mail problem...

2002-02-04 Thread David A. Bandel
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 07:36:13 -0500 begin Bill Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: I am having a wierd problem.. using 1 of 2 accounts with my ISP's mails ervice the account I used to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] will no longer complete downloads. Gets approximately 3/4 way through the dl of mail

Re: Wierd mail problem...

2002-02-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:11:22PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: ... There are one or two pop3 servers (cucipop comes to mind) that will exhibit this behavior when an e-mail is larger than 2Mb. But if that's the case, you have idiots working in the ISP who should limit incoming mail (sendmail

Re: Wierd mail problem...

2002-02-04 Thread David A. Bandel
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:40:59 -0800 begin Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:11:22PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: ... There are one or two pop3 servers (cucipop comes to mind) that will exhibit this behavior when an e-mail is larger than 2Mb. But if

Re: Wierd mail problem...

2002-02-04 Thread Andrew Mathews
David A. Bandel wrote: snip I bet even the 20Gb /var they now have will fill (largest disk drive I could get on short notice). That's up from the 9Gb one I put on the first time (their original install was done by their first administrator who only put a 300Mb /var filesystem in on a