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Date:	Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:26:50 -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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I should have added to my previous post that the 2.7 MB note was sent by SeaMonkey and took several
seconds to send. In fact when I look at it now, in the inbox, it takes 10 clock seconds to fully
load. That post, though, is not the letter we are talking about. The problem I'm having is with
e-mail I'm sending to customers from my computer via the sendmail program. That letter is 1 kB and
takes at least one minute to send. Way too long!

Sheridan

Sheridan George wrote:
> Oh, I finally realize what y'all are talking about. The e-mail I sent
> to SCOUG.Help had several large attachments. That on could be 2.7 MB.
> At first I was thinking of my test e-mail. The workings of an old, slow
> brain.
>
> Sheridan
>
> Colin Campbell wrote:
>> 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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