Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Patrick Olson
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > 1. It has no provision for the possibility of fetchmail still being in > > action after 5 minutes (for example someone attaches a large file to an > > e-mail) > > > > 2. It has no way of handling a situation where fetchmail has stalled and > >

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Patrick Olson
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Taren wrote: In my case, I don't think it's a problem with fetchmail itself, because any email that hangs fetchmail just happens to hang Hotmail when Hotmail tries to display it after retrieving it from my ISP via POP. > The situation where fetchmail hangs is something which

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:21:52PM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: > > Unfortunately, the script I created (ppp-mail) calls ppp-on, waits until > ip-up creates a file (as a signal that the connection is up), does > "fetchmail &", sleeps for 5 minutes then does a killall fetchmail and > ppp-off doesn't

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Taren
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/04/98 >at 02:15 PM, Taren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >I just went through the same exact situation with sendmail/procmail. The > >problem isn't with your system, or any software you're running on it. > >What is happening is that you're receiving email from

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-05 Thread Patrick Olson
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Taren wrote: > I just went through the same exact situation with sendmail/procmail. The > problem isn't with your system, or any software you're running on it. What > is happening is that you're receiving email from either spoofed addresses > which can't be resolved by your

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-04 Thread Taren
> > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Peter Granroth wrote: > > > > Has anyone else had this problem with their mail? Could someone who > > > understands what is causing this problem explain it to me? > > > > Of course I forgot to write down the error message, but I also had problems > > getting fetchmail t

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-04 Thread Patrick Olson
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > > Has anyone else had this problem with their mail? Could someone who > > understands what is causing this problem explain it to me? > > I receive mail from this list in digest form and did not experience such > problem with mail from the list. However

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-04 Thread Patrick Olson
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Peter Granroth wrote: > > Has anyone else had this problem with their mail? Could someone who > > understands what is causing this problem explain it to me? > > Of course I forgot to write down the error message, but I also had problems > getting fetchmail to get three mess

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-04 Thread john
Johann Spies writes: > I would also like to know how this can be solved. Have you tried contacting the fetchmail maintainer? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-04 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Patrick Olson wrote: > I have received several e-mails from this list that cause fetchmail to > stall. There is something wrong with the individual e-mails, as Hotmail > can't quite handle them either. Although Hotmail retrieves them from the > POP server, the web browser stal

Re: messages that jam mail readers

1998-08-03 Thread Peter Granroth
> > I have received several e-mails from this list that cause fetchmail to > stall. There is something wrong with the individual e-mails, as Hotmail > can't quite handle them either. Although Hotmail retrieves them from the > POP server, the web browser stalls while displaying them. > > I just d