Re: ms-outlook bug
Hi, I have this about 3 times a month on this account which subscribes to a lot of mailing lists, but only when Norton Antivirus is scanning incoming pop mail. I guess I could disbale it and then to try to duplicate it. Is the original poster using Norton to scan his incoming mail? I can confirm problems with OE 5 (latest and pre-latest Version). This appears on two specific Senders, is not related to a specific PC and on these PC's aren't any Virusscanners. First I thought it might be related to a language set (belgium or francophone). But after this discussion I have to start from scratch Tom
RE: ms-outlook bug
The problem I am referring to is the one where Outlook Express and Outlook 2000 get stuck while downloading certain messages, supposedly due to a bug in the MUA's. (The only solution I heard of is deleting the offending message) I have been using Outlook for ~2-3 years on a vpopmail server, and have never had a single message cause a problem like this. In fact, this is the first I'd ever heard of such a thing. Currently I'm just using vanilla qmail-pop3d, and in 25,000 or so messages, I haven't run into such a thing, but I haven't really hit widespread use yet. --joshua.
Re: ms-outlook bug
Rumor has it that Xavier Quesada may have mentioned these words: Hi... Does anybody know of any POP3 server that I can use with qmail+vmailmgr that doesn't have the Microsoft Outlook problem? Or is there a solution to this problem (that doesn't involve stop using outlook)? The problem I am referring to is the one where Outlook Express and Outlook 2000 get stuck while downloading certain messages, supposedly due to a bug in the MUA's. (The only solution I heard of is deleting the offending message) I've done some checking on that bug, and: 1) yes, the bug is in the MUA (but that's no suprise... ;-) 2) it seems to have something to do with how the Received: headers are wrapping -- I've gone in with insert your favorite *nix text editor here - mine is Jove and deleted all of the carriage returns on the Received: headers (so each Received: is on one and only one line) and told the folks to try downloading their messages again, and then they work fine. If you had a perl script in the users .qmail file that would re-write the Received files dump the file in their $HOME/Maildir/new directory, that should fix it. [1] Hope that helps (at least a little...) Roger Merch Merchberger [1] I, however, *enjoy* telling folks that their Outlook Express is not the way to go... altho writing the script would give me some pleasure, I would lose out on an even larger source of enjoyment... ;-) -- Roger Merch Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
RE: ms-outlook bug
I have no idea what the problem would be... I've been a lookOut user since lookOut 97, have had to use off and on OE as well (damn I hated those jobs) and have never encountered this problem. I have seen messages to big to DL over a 56k line before the server/client timed out, but never an inability to actually get a message. You might try upping the timeout limit under the advanced tab, I always have mine set to the max anyways. If not use webmail to check on the offending message perhaps its just too big to get before things time out. If you don't have webmail on the actual server, you can try going to atdot.org (damn, just checked, its not working any more) or if you know of a webmail that will log into another pop box, you should be able to check on it that way and get rid of the offending message. If this is really an issue, I'd love to see some examples. I use qmail on all my servers and my clients use lookOut exclusively, and I've never had to delete a message for them. hmmm. Hank Wethington Information Logistics www.GoInfoLogistics.com mailto:info.at.GoInfoLogistics.com -Original Message- From: Xavier Quesada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 12:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ms-outlook bug Hi... Does anybody know of any POP3 server that I can use with qmail+vmailmgr that doesn't have the Microsoft Outlook problem? Or is there a solution to this problem (that doesn't involve stop using outlook)? The problem I am referring to is the one where Outlook Express and Outlook 2000 get stuck while downloading certain messages, supposedly due to a bug in the MUA's. (The only solution I heard of is deleting the offending message) Thanks. Xavier Quesada Travel Technology South America S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ms-outlook bug
From: Hank Wethington [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no idea what the problem would be... I've been a lookOut user since lookOut 97, have had to use off and on OE as well (damn I hated those jobs) and have never encountered this problem. I have seen messages to big to DL over a 56k line before the server/client timed out, but never an inability to actually get a message. I have this about 3 times a month on this account which subscribes to a lot of mailing lists, but only when Norton Antivirus is scanning incoming pop mail. I guess I could disbale it and then to try to duplicate it. Is the original poster using Norton to scan his incoming mail? You might try upping the timeout limit under the advanced tab, Max always, still times out until I access the account with sqwebmail (which reads maildirs directly I think). I always have mine set to the max anyways. If not use webmail to check on the offending message perhaps its just too big to get before things time out. If you don't have webmail on the actual server, you can try going to atdot.org (damn, just checked, its not working any more) or if you know of a webmail that will log into another pop box, you should be able to check on it that way and get rid of the offending message. If this is really an issue, I'd love to see some examples. I use qmail on all my servers and my clients use lookOut exclusively, and I've never had to delete a message for them. hmmm. I have not been able to track down the offending mesage either, but I have not tried very hard. Rick Up
