Old dates crash PMMail 2000

[John M Price, PhD]

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:

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> On Wed, 01 Dec 1999 13:12:08 +0100, xavier caballe wrote:
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> >>I've recently noticed that when I receive email where the date is old, like
> >>from 1996, that message makes PMMail 2000 crash. Restarting PMMail and trying
> >>to retrieve mail again results in a crash at that same message. My solution
> >>has been to use Netscape to delete that one 'offending' messaage from the
> >>POP3 server.
> >
> >I haven't tested it... but you don't need Netscape to delete a message on
> >the POP3 Server... you can use the Remote Control capability (Account ->
> >Remote Control) to erase messages on the server.
> 
> But his problem was that he couldn't even get to that point.  He had
> his PMMail set to fetch upon startup, and it kept crashing.  In order
> to use the Remote Control in this case, he needs to set his options to
> not fetch he account on startup.  Then he would have a chance to use
> the Remote Control before it crashes the program.

But isn't the point that this should *not* crash the email program?


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