Re: (PM) Outlook Express

Chuck Simons (chuck@simons.net)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:20:46 -0600

I've been waiting for someone else to have this problem.
I too run Post.Office on my NT Server. Never had any problems until I had a
few accounts running Outlook.
It will hang on messages. Not allow you to cancel it. (It tries to finish
the message its stuck on)
It really sucks. along with that, Outlook does not delete messages as it
downloads them. I guess it sends a delete all after it's picked all the
messages up.
So, if it hangs, The next time it picks up messages, it will pick ALL of
them up again. Then our users scream at us that our mail server is screwed
up.

I have to use outlook here at work. But I have a copy of Eudora installed so
that when Outlook hangs, I kill it off and go pick up the mail with Eudora.
Eudora:
Does not hang.
Does a delete after every message.

Oh Yea,
Give us something else to fight with.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Davidson <rick@buckeyeweb.com>
To: portmaster-users@livingston.com <portmaster-users@livingston.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: (PM) Outlook Express

>We use Post.Office for our mail server software, we have been experiencing
>the same problems. We have talked with software.com about this and they
>said that MS has admitted that they didn't follow the standards closely
>enough in the outlook product line (go figure! bastards!). Apparently (not
>sure of exact details) it has something to do with improper use of control
>characters in the message ID, the ill effects are seen on the download side
>but could be caused by the sender using outlook products, I have seen
>Netscape choke trying to download mail sent with outlook products. It seems
>to hang the most on messages that are forwarded as attachments multiple
>times (why do people do that) I must have cleaned 15 of those damn
>electronic Christmas cards out of L'users mailboxes before Christmas! Yes
>all outlook related. Well anyway, in true MS fashion they said they are not
>going to fix it because it will be fixed in the new outlook versions, which
>we will have to force everyone to upgrade to...
>
>We haven't had much problems with the modem hangups but we have to delete
>"stuck" messages at least twice a day. what we see is a user gets the same
>messages over and over but it hangs on the same message, this repeats until
>they call us. I will try the >90
>
>Rick Davidson
>Systems Administrator
>Buckeye Internet Services, Ltd. http://www.buckeyeweb.com
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