No, there are no single dots in any of the messages I've checked. The
thing that a majority (all?) of the messages have in common is that they
contain MIME-attached Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. This is not to say
that all emails with Excel attachments choke, but if a client does choke
on it there's a 90% or greater chance that it has an Excel spreadsheet.
It appears that Outlook does download some of the message, but dies in the
middle.
A significant number of people who are having this problem are dialing in
to our network, but it is not exclusive to dial-up users.
I myself have started using Outlook 2000. I've tried copying these files
to my Maildir as well as qmail-injecting the messages to my email account,
but I have yet to experience this problem myself. Even when using
fetchmail I have no problems.
But of course the users are getting tired of the "well it works for
me" line.
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Cyril Bitterich wrote:
> Hi Albert.
>
> Albert Hopkins wrote:
> >
> > No the headers are fine.
>
> Have a look at the messages in the Maildir and check for s single dot in
> a line taht is follwed by a linefeed.
> Something like this:
> .
>
> You can search for it easily by executing the following command:
> grep "^[\.]" *
>
> Usually the dot followed by the newline is the sign for the pop-client
> that the end of the message is reached. But in some cases the message
> goes on and the mailer gets stuck.
> Usually every MUA sending such a line in the middle of a message should
> exchange it with a
> ..
> And the receiving Mailer should convert it back to
> .
> again.
>
> I know this to be a problem with certain Versions of Outlook. But I
> didn't find the mailer that sends the malformed lines.
>
> > > > Does anyone else experience this? We randomly and unpredictably have
> > > > an occurrance whereby Outlook (2000) is unable to POP a message from
> > > > our (qmail) pop server. When I look in the users Maildir I see that
> > > > it's always dying on the same message.
>
> I hope that this helpes you.
>
> Cyril Bitterich
>
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Albert Hopkins
Sr. Systems Specialist
Dynacare Laboratories
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
-Walter Winchell
