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Date:	Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:47:36 -0700
From:	Colin Campbell <cmcampb@roadrunner.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Sendmail Three (UNUSUAL RECEIVE FAILURE)

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Sheridan,
It was 2.7MB for me, too. It arrived a few hours after the SCOUG
meeting was over.
Colin

Sheridan George wrote:
> Peter,
>
> What 2.7 mB message are you talking about? My message was 1,041
> bytes. What is the name of your inflation utility? Does it have an
> anti-inflation feature that can be applied to, say, gas prices.
>
> Sheridan
>
> Peter Skye wrote:
>> 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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