On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 07:38:12PM +0200, Cyril Bitterich wrote:
> weiss, was gemeint ist, aber keiner kann's so richtig griffig
> formulieren=
> ..
> Vielleicht sollte ich's mal mit "learning by doing" versuchen???
>
> I would like to know why Outlook could take this for a problem. Might it
> be that the Problem derives form two IP-Pakets that divided the message
> in one ending with a dot and one starting with a dot?
The exact description of the problem is: when one packet ends with a dot,
and the next fragment starts with a dot, outlook stops reading input as
mail, and returns to command mode. The next word isn't part of normal
popserver/popclient communications, and outlook aborts with an error.
> The curious thing with the whole thing is that the above text is in
> message nr. 29 and not nr 30 as you could think from the error message.
It (incorrectly) assumes message 29 is done, and starts waiting for message
30, when it thinks an error occurred.
> And it seems that this Problem does not occur when using an ethernet
> connection but does when using a dial-up line.
You have differente MTU's for dial-in and ethernet (576 and 1500)
> I know that this is not an outlook-probs list. But maybe you can help me
> in some way.
There are no solutions. You can forcefeed all incoming mail through a filter
which removes double dots. That will destroy some attachments.
You can tell people to use another mailer (all outlook express versions
suffer from this problem).
You can't download the source and fix it yourself.
If people insist on using outlook they will have no choice but to accept
this kind of thing happening once in a while.
You can sue MICROS~1.
I'm sorry if this sounds final, but you, from your side, cannot work around
a bug which makes your clients mailprogram stop listening. About the only
workaround is for to forward the message to the client's account using pine,
mutt or the like, and hope the extra headers will shift the double dot away
from the boundary of two packets. But that's a manual workaround. If you
have 17000 clients (like I do) it's a lot of extra work.
--
Ruben
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Eat more memory!
