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Date:	Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:28:53 -0700
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Sendmail Three (UNUSUAL RECEIVE FAILURE)

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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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