[pmmail-list] PmMail hanging

[Mark Paulus]

You should be able to 'telnet' to your pop server 
(telnet your.mailserver.com 110).  Then use the 
commands 'user' and 'pass'
(user youruserid
pass yourpoppassword')
>From there, you can actually dump the offending message
and see if there are any funny characters in the message.
If there are, you can use the remote control to delete that
message.

(use 'list' command to see all messages, 
use 'top message# 10' to see header,
use 'retr message#' to see the entire message,
use 'quit' to get out of mailbox)

I have run into a situation where someone sent me a 
mal-formed message that pmmail didn't like, and it would
always hang.  deleting that message via remote-control 
allowed me to start processing again.


On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:17:14 +0100 (BST), Dave Saville wrote:

>In the past PMMail has often hung on me with "getting message n of m"
>at the bottom. Stopping and restarting PMM a) always gets past it and
>b) m has increased somewhat during the hang. I put this down to my
>ISP doing *something*.

>Recently I switched all my incoming mail to do so via weasel - Guess
>what? - PMM still hangs. It has just done it twice in the last half
>hour.

>Does weasel have anything that I can turn on to narrow this down? Not
>that PMM will ever get fixed of course :-( But if I knew what to look
>for  I could put a log through a pipe and try and detect the
>situation.

>Ye gods how long does it take to stuff a few files of C onto
>Sourceforge?

>-- 
>Regards

>Dave Saville

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