Mail trouble

[Rick Rosinski]

This makes sense, since Outlook can read the mail.  It seems strange that 
both Netscape and KMail get stuck on the same message.  I will have to try 
the fetchmail or telnet idea.

>
> Sometimes clients hang on particular pieces of mail. I've seen it be
> because the mail was too big, because it had some header or attachment the
> client didn't understand or reasons we never figured out.
>
> Check out fetchmail. There are a couple of other command line mail getters.
> You might even be able to just delete that particular mail with them. You
> could also do that by telnetting to to port 110 and issuing a bunch of mail
> commands by hand or by using the perl module that understands pop.
>
> For the mail that's on m$: if you can get it in some sort of text format,
> which is probably what it's in, then you can transfer it to your Linux box.
> Search freshmeat for mail converters. Used to be a bunch of 'em out there.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans

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