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 heard blurting out:
 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. around the 135
 mark of dls..

 On Monday 04 February 2002 08:18, you were heard blurting out:
  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 activating a program like licq. If the line disconnects after (say)
  10 mins of just licq. it's an isp issue. If not, keep licq running and
  read your mail, if it doesn't drop out, it's *definitely* an isp issue.

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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 now.

This may be a case where using IMAP would have solved the problem since it
doesn't move messages to the client until you specifically open the message
to view it.  IMAP just gets the basic header information from each document
so your mail client can display the messages available.

When one of ISP customers gets a problem like this, I usually have them
open the customer's mailbox with mutt so they can see and delete the
offending messages.  This can cause problems though because one of our
ISP's customers asked one of their support people to fix his mailbox.  The
support person told him that she would have to look at his mail messages to
fix it.  She found a bunch of kiddie porn in the mail, and now the
customer's a guest of the state.

Bill
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