Re: messages that jam mail readers
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
> > Has anyone else had this problem with their mail? Could someone who
> > understands what is causing this problem explain it to me?
>
> I receive mail from this list in digest form and did not experience such
> problem with mail from the list. However the same thing happened to me
> several times caused by spam. Every time I have to phone in to my ISP and
> ask them to delete the message as they do not allow me to telnet and do it
> that way.
That's interesting that it was caused by spam. I've never had any
_technical_ problems with it. Even if it doesn't jam up my computer, spam
is annoying.
What program are you using for mail? I've found a way to get fetchmail to
delete these messages, although it's not the most graceful:
1. Interrupt fetchmail with Control C
2. Start it again. When it starts, it says it is flushing message 1
because it has been seen. This is always the message it stalled on last
time because it has already flushed all the previous messages after
retrieving them.
> I would also like to know how this can be solved.
We could always go back to using smoke signals :)
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