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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>Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes. - JT Kirk
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