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 -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. -- H. L. Mencken _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
