Old dates crash PMMail 2000

[Jonathan B. Bayer]

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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 05:54:22 -0800 (PST), John M Price, PhD wrote:

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


I'm not arguing that point, I do agree with it.  My response was
pointing out the fact that the original poster wouldn't be able to use
Remote Control because of the bug and his settings.


JBB
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