> Just a quick update on a problem I queried the list on a few days ago, in
> which Outlook sometimes hangs on a message. Doing some extensive tcpdump
> tracing and analysis, we've found that Outlook hangs in at least the
> following situations:
>
> 1) Periods (.) in a message that end up at the very end of a tcp/ip packet
> during transport to the Outlook client.
> 2) Null (zero) characters in a message (not sure if they, too, have to be at
> the end of a packet or not.
>
> This appears to be a problem with Outlook 98 and 2000. Installing Office
> 2000 SR-1 seems to fix the problem, at least in the cases we've seen.
>
> By the way, nulls in messages appear to also hang Eudora (not sure which
> version), though we only have one confirmed case of that.
>
> Hope this is useful to somebody out there in qmail land....
Just to add that this also affects other Micros**t products -
"Windows Messaging" - an older MUA - being affected too.
Well researched Carey.
cheers,
Andrew.
