FWIW, Outlook fails the POP connection to my ISP, without proceeding to other messages, on all messages that are header-only with no payload, i.e., finish with a single blank line only. I don't know if these are 'valid' messages according to SMTP, but in any case I can see them through the web interface, and after I delete them through the web interface, Outlook is unblocked and able to download other messages. I have always imagined them to be spam attempts gone bad, shrugged my shoulders, and accepted their existence. They occur rarely, roughly one in 5000 messages.
Peter K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Klavins [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: John Gonzalez/netMDC admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 23 July 2004 7:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Outlook and Qmail Do me a quick favor and when it happens, grep the message for three +++ signs together... if he's on a dialup modem, I have seen 3 plusses cause the modem to go into the 'guard' and 'hang' the email program. A long shot, but something worth looking into. On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:26:22PM -0400, Brian Franco wrote: > I have the same problem with redhat sendmail and qpopper did you ever find a solution? > Any help would be greatly appreciated > > >I am having a problem with one of my customers who is using Outlook 2000 > >SP-3 to connect to our Qmail server. When downloading messages from his POP > >account, Outlook will hang. It is most likely a corrupted message, since he > >can delete the messages using a webmail interface, and then continue to > >download messages. He has been using McAfee's SpamKiller, but now, even > >when he turns it off he has the same problem. He has even deleted his > >account and recreated it (this is a virtual domain, so he can login as > >Postmaster and do that). > > >Has anyone run into this problem? I know at least one other ISP having the > >same problem with some of his customers, but we have not found a solution > >yet. Any pointers will be appreciated. > > >Thanx, > >Anil Gupte > > -- John Gonzalez, Tularosa Communications | (505) 439-0200 work JG6416, ASN 11711, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (505) 443-1228 fax http://www.tularosa.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]