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Re: e-mail problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Haney)
Fri Jun 30 02:26:21 1995
From: brian@cybernaut.com (Brian Haney)
To: dmbaum@shani.net (Daniel Baum)
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 21:16:00 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950629191827.80B-100000@darkstar.shani.net> from "Daniel Baum" at Jun 29, 95 07:22:24 pm
>
>
> I hope this is the right forum for this message, if not, apologies to all.
>
> I am connected via SLIP (DIP) to a remote server, and retrieve my mail
> with the Popclient program which I found in the sunsite archive. The
> program appears to work satisfactorily, except that when I open my Inbox
> in Pine, there is a bogus message in between each actual one. Instead of
> a name etc. it says [no message text available]. This bogus message can
> easily be deleted, but it is a pain if I have about 50-100 messages a day.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Daniel Baum
> Jerusalem
> Israel
>
Sounds like the POP client or POP server are not correctly parsing the
inbox. As I understand it (somebody correct me here), each message
begins with the word ``From '' at the beginning of the line (notice
there is no ``:''). The next umpteen lines to an empty line are the
header lines. The remainder of the text is the body of the
message until another ``From '' that immediately follows an
empty line.
Can you send the headers of a bogus message and the preceding and
following messages? That would help diagnose the problem.
There are also two versions of POP (POP2 and POP3). I don't
know what would happen if you used a POP2 client with a POP3 server
or vice versa.
--
Brian Haney
brian@cybernaut.com
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