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Re: e-mail problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Baum)
Fri Jun 30 11:09:29 1995
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 15:15:59 +0000 (GMT)
From: Daniel Baum <dmbaum@shani.net>
To: Brian Haney <brian@cybernaut.com>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0sRXUn-0000WwC@cybernaut.com>
Thanks for your reply.
The bogus messages have neither a header or body text of any kind. When
you try to open them, you get a completely blank screen. Choosong the
extended header option also reveals nothing.
The POP server uses POP3. Any attempt to connect with POP2 yields an
error message.
Daniel Baum
On Thu, 29 Jun 1995, Brian Haney wrote:
>
> 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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