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Date:	Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:00:38 -0700
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Sendmail Three (UNUSUAL RECEIVE FAILURE)

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Hi Sheridan,

Normally my email has no problem with large messages, but your 2.7 MB
message flandered all of the following:

-- 1. Junk Spy (OS/2). The window display shows it receives the message
and then hangs while searching it for spam signatures. Further, it
somehow causes Junk Spy's refresh-the-foreign-server-connection timer to
fail which causes the foreign mail server into timeout, thus you can't
delete the message.

-- 2. Netscape 2.02. The message is received but then Netscape tries to
display the huge message, again causing a server timeout.

-- 3. Symantec Norton Antivirus. I finally tried receiving the message
on a Windows XP machine but Symantec Norton Antivirus went into an
endless (or very long, I stopped it after more than 15 minutes) loop of
refreshes sent to the foreign server.

I finally zapped your message with some telnet:

C:>telnet -p 110 -l mylogfile.txt pop3url.com [OS/2]
C:>telnet -f mylogfile.txt pop3url.com 110 [Windows]

user --- [your user name]
pass --- [your password]
stat [to see mailbox content summary]
list [then see the log file, to identify the message number]
top n 1 [to see the header and verify you have the right number]
dele n [flag message n for deletion]
quit [forces the delete and exits]

I'm guessing that either a) there is something unusual in your message,
such as a line beginning with a single period (an end-of-file before
true end-of-file), or b) the huge amount of text engulfs both OS/2 and
WinXP.

I have a suggestion for the future: Put the 2.7 MB file onto your
Apache web server and just post the url.

Question: Did _you_ have any trouble receiving your message from the
list?

- Peter Skye

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