Opening up the MBX file in a text editor shows that the line was indeed cut off there at 250 characters. The Hotmail graphics that it uses are part of the HTML message, I believe... they're just little smiley things you can insert in instead of doing ;) that. I wonder if the same would happen if she just sent the message using plain text... my other friends who use Hotmail use plain text, which would explain why their messages get through fine, maybe? I'll attach a text file with a piece of the message that got cut off from the MBX file... if you view it in Notepad with word-wrap turned off, you can see very easily where the message got cut off at. You can view where I quoted from the message in the previous correspondences below and match it up. Web Messaging is what I was using to view the message, but I also tried getting the message via Outlook Express using POP3, and it was still missing some parts. For the time being, I think I'll just have her try to get Hotmail to send plain-text... I would ask her all her settings and everything, but she is a tad computer illiterate and I doubt would be much help. I might could just get her password from her, or just go setup a Hotmail account on my own and play with it tonight. But the only thing that separates her messages from the others I've received are that hers are in HTML. Well, I take that back, I got one other message in HTML from someone, but it was very short, just maybe 10 or 15 lines. Thanks for all you guys' help! David ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Daniel Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:49:10 -0500 >David, > >This almost sounds like 'chunking' of the SMTP message (sending it is >'chunks', not the whole thing at once). However, IMail does not support that >ESMTP capability, so it is not the 'cause' (the sending server would know >this and not use this mode). And if a 'chunk' were missing, I think it would >be of a fixed size, not variable (although it has been a while since I read >that RFC, so I might be wrong on this). > >Would you like someone here in the forum to send you a large text message to >see how it is received? I'm sure that could be arranged, just ask! (whoops, >I see you say other senders are OK) > >Are the Hotmail graphics, true graphics or just characters? If characters, >they would be part of the plain text data, but real graphics would have to >be 'attachments' or they could be HTML code. If graphics and true plain text >mode (non-html), then they might not show up inline, in the email. > >Follow Scotts suggestion! Open the main.mbx file, with notepad, and see if >you can locate the message and view its contents. You can attach the >main.mbx file and others can look at it, too (keep the file modest, as it >will be sent to everyone on this list, or send direct to people who >volunteer to read it, yes, that means me). Do you see the complete text of >the message? How about when viewing the message using Web Messaging? > >Find out what settings (all of them!) this person uses in his Hotmail (or >other?)client. Try them from your account, and see which might have that >effect? > >Happy Holidays! > >Daniel Donnelly >________________________________________________________ > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "David Dousette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 10:55 AM >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] imail 6.05 truncating my messages? > > >> The same message was sent twice to me, once straight from Hotmail and once >relayed through MailAndNews. The same parts were missing both times, but >there is nothing special about the parts. The first message that showed up >like that, she'd used a lot of the Hotmail graphical smiley faces and such, >so I thought that might have been the problem, but on this next one she just >used text and it cuts off from the middle of a word down through the end of >that particular paragraph, then it picks it up again. Here's an example of >a message received through Imail... >> >> "Oops, I have another hiccup attack, I'm still in pain from earlier on >today, so I best go, get these stopped before they tear a hole in my >chest-do you ever get crazy bouts of the hiccups where they just stay with >you for a whole day? I do, and I h >> >> Take care, >> >> the hiccupper :)" >> >> And here's the same message fragment on MailAndNews... >> >> "Oops, I have another hiccup attack, I'm still in pain from earlier on >today, so I best go, get these stopped before they tear a hole in my >chest-do you ever get crazy bouts of the hiccups where they just stay with >you for a whole day? I do, and I hate it muchly! >> >> Take care, >> >> the hiccupper :)" >> >> As you can see, it didn't cut off much, but the fact that it didn't just >> >> >>
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