On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Hal Dell wrote: > Hello all... > Some time ago, in July of 2006, Davide wrote the xbmf post-data filter to > filter out eMail messages with the POP3 Tail Issue plus other related > issues. One place you can see Davide's posting about this is: > <http://xmailforum.homelinux.net/index.php?s=2579b675e310d8ffdc219b691909d79 > a&showtopic=3269> > http://xmailforum.homelinux.net/index.php?s=2579b675e310d8ffdc219b691909d79a > &showtopic=3269. As we know this issue appeared be the lack of a proper > termination sequence or "tail" on a particular POP3 email message. RFC 1939 > (the POP3 protocol specification) dictates that all email messages must end > with a pair of CR+LF characters. The problem started small and took only a > couple months to a serious pain in the you know what. > > In the above case, both Eudora and Outlook 2003 eMail clients would simply > hang. Well, all of a sudden I am getting eMail messages that will kill the > POP3 download in progress for both Eudora and Outlook 2003. Both of these > programs failed previous and my guess is that they both use the same APIs. > As far as I know Microsoft never tracked down the source of the issue in > Outlook 2003. > > I have saved one exemplar that I believe is causing the issue. I need some > to help to figure this out. Anyone knows something about MIME formatted > messages? Once we figure out the cause then maybe we can update xbmf to test > for this case as well.
Save it, where? - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
