PMMail/2 problems

[John M Price, PhD]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Joachim F. Selinger wrote:

> On 27 Mar, John M Price, PhD wrote:
> > Let me clarify the pop issue.
> > I see tails of messages, perhaps the last line of one, which shold not
> > be there.  The first line should be From:.....  and when I delete the 
> > leftovers, all is well.
> 
> Where do you see this and with what do you fix it?
> (like vi and on the POP host?)

On the mail file:  /var/mail/j/jmprice

To fix it I use simply pico (I am so used to it via pine) and delete the
offending top line.

> > At the same times, I get the ends of messages munged.
> 
> Hmmmh. Sound like a server problem as I said.... 

Seems more like PMMail/2 isn't accepting the whole message, or deciding it
has the whole message before it actually does.

That said it could be either.

> 
> > This is a pop problem?  It is a new one on me, though the pop server
> > has changed here to a larger one.
> 
> Then it must be the server, IMHO.
> 
> > On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Joachim F. Selinger wrote:
> >> On 26 Mar, John M Price, PhD wrote:
> >> > With the newest version, I am getting more of these little 3175s. 
> >> >  also note that when this happens, or even when it doesn't, I have
> >> > pop problems - the file left after a PMMail/2 hang is unreadable by
> >> > pine when I shell into my ISP.  This is inexcusable.  This is
> >> > action that does not even accord the title 'mailer' for the program
> >> > if it can't deal with the file on the pop server properly.
> >> Please don't complain about PMMail/2 in this case as it has no way of
> >> mishandling a mail file on the POP server. POP only allows controlled
> >> access and you should complain to your ISP about not having a
> >> properly working POP daemon. Even if PMMail/2 would crash or hang or
> >> whatever the POP server has to recover gracefully as e.g. the
> >> qpopper (UNIX) does.
> 
> Anyone else any ideas?
> 
> Jocki
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