Subject: Re: Mail from 'Dave Huang' hangs my Mail system.
To: Josh Hope" , "Roger Fischer <roger@badger1.net>
From: #hea <hea@ix.netcom.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/25/1998 22:11:55
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Josh Hope < otaku@unixgeek.ml.org) wrote:
>Well, upon just glancing at his headers (which is probably what is
>screwing Eudora up), 2 of them look "different."
>
>X-In-Reply-To: may be screwing Eudora up, since it may be looking for a
>"Reply-To:" header and may interpret that as an address, and try to sort
>it out (it's pretty long, and Eudora may not like it.) There are a lot of
>"mays" though :)
>
>The other header is the X-Authentication-Warning:, though I do not see
>exactly how this could be affecting Eudora.
>
>Now, I am not an "expert" at e-mail, these are just *theories*, and by no
>means am I claiming to be an expert :) I may be way off...
>
>Hope this helps in *some* way...
>
>On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Roger Fischer wrote:
>
>> Am I the only person having this problem?
>> When I'm checking my e-mail, it will suddenely hang.  Mail stops
>> transfering and Eudora times out.
>> 
>> I am fortunate enough to have a shell account on my ISP's mail machine. =
 I
>> log in, and run PINE, and dig through the message list.  inevitably, =
it's a
>> message from Dave Huang (khym@bga.com).  If I mark that message as =
deleted,
>> exit, and return to Eudora, it will get the rest of the messages.  This
>> happens with EVERY message I have gotten from Dave Huang on this mailing
>> list.
>> 
>> Does anybody know why this would happen?  Why only his mail?  Am I the =
only
>> one?
>> Please help.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Roger
>> 
>> 

You might also check out his TRAILER.  I notice he has " =
L=A0+=A0+=A0+ " and " Q=A0+=A0+=A0+=A0"   I think the sequence of 3 + =
signs in a row will cause some modems to disconnect.  On the other =
hand, I was able to read his message....   Just a thought.