[ale] Baaad POP problems (OT)

[Joseph A. Knapka]

Dan,

THANK YOU!

It didn't occur to me to just read the POP3 spec... Anyway,
once I manually deleted the first message as you suggested,
all was well.

-- Joe

Dan Newcombe wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Joseph A. Knapka wrote:
> > For the past couple of days I have been unable to get email
> > from one of my email accounts via POP. Every client I've
> > tried (Netscape on Linux, Netscape on NT, Fetchmail on
> > Linux, and (had to wash hands several times after) Outlook
> > Express) hangs indefinitely while fetching the first message.
> 
> My mom had this before where there was a corrupt message (not an exchange
> server though).  I've never had any problem with our exchange server or
> with Outlook Express.   Try this
> 
> telnet popserver 110
> USER username
> PASS password
> LIST
> 
> that'll list the messages.
> RETR number
> will get the specified message.
> DEL or DELE number
> will remove the specified message.
> 
> That may help you track down and remove a bad message.

-- Joe Knapka
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