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Bill - 11 Mar 2008 20:02 GMT

For two days mail would indicate I had incoming but it would not
arrive. So after checking about and calling my provider twice. I was
stumped.
It seems someone I did not know sent me an attachment. I don't open
attachment's from folks I do not know. But this one was never opened it
just stopped my mail.

Cure...provider killed the attachment mail and all is well.

Bill

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Clever Monkey - 12 Mar 2008 22:38 GMT

> For two days mail would indicate I had incoming but it would not
> arrive. So after checking about and calling my provider twice. I was
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>
> Cure...provider killed the attachment mail and all is well.

Welcome to broken multipart MIME messages. Every mailer in the world
can get hung up on these.

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Bill - 12 Mar 2008 23:16 GMT

> > For two days mail would indicate I had incoming but it would not
> > arrive. So after checking about and calling my provider twice. I was
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> Welcome to broken multipart MIME messages. Every mailer in the world
> can get hung up on these.

Is there anyway to deal with it on my computer ?

Thanks for the MIME info!

Bill or should I just be quiet....

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Barry Margolin - 13 Mar 2008 00:18 GMT

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<b2forewagner-2C609D.18161012032008@sn-indi.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,

> > > For two days mail would indicate I had incoming but it would not
> > > arrive. So after checking about and calling my provider twice. I was
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
>
> Bill or should I just be quiet....

If your provider offers a webmail interface, you may be able to delete
the message there.

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Jolly Roger - 13 Mar 2008 00:46 GMT

> In article
> <b2forewagner-2C609D.18161012032008@sn-indi.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
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> If your provider offers a webmail interface, you may be able to delete
> the message there.

Or you could always telnet pop.server.name 110... ; )

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Lewis - 13 Mar 2008 01:50 GMT

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<jollyroger-AEE1B5.18462812032008@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,

> Or you could always telnet pop.server.name 110... ; )

Ick!

I prefer telnetting to 143.

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Jeffrey Goldberg - 13 Mar 2008 03:52 GMT

> I prefer telnetting to 143.

Yeah. But if the part is really messed up, then this is one case where
you would really want a mail access protocol that doesn't know MIME.

-j

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