Feigning erudition, Joel Hammer wrote:
% My incoming mail goes to various mail servers on the internet, and I run
% fetchmail to get them from various POP servers.
% 
% Today, for the first time in memory, when  fetchmail tried getting my mail,
% a particular piece of mail kept freezing during the download and fetchmail
% would finally stop, giving  an error message of some sort or another.
% I had to go onto the server with telnet and delete that piece of mail,
% then, all went well.
% 
% So, the question: What kind of mail would freeze the download and kill
% fetchmail?

Some sort of unexpected (duh) binary character? Did it stop at the 
same location each time?

Kurt
-- 
Atlee is a very modest man.  And with reason.
                -- Winston Churchill
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