At 12:18 PM 2/27/99 -0500, Tim Morton <timmorton@friend.ly.net> wrote: >J.L >Could you check with your Internet Service Provider and see if your >e-mail header is corrupted. Over the last two weeks every time one of >your messages crosses my ISP server it causes my e-mail to hang and not >download. >According to the guys at the ISP it is due to a corrupt header on your >e-mail. This is one of those damnable "Me-Too" messages, but it may serve a purpose. About two days ago I had my very first experience (in an estimated 200,000 incoming emails) of a message which hung my email client (*every* time in about five consecutive efforts to download the message). It happened to be a message for "J.L." I made no attempt to determine the cause of the problem--I just called up my ISP and asked how we could remedy the situation. He deleted the culprit message from the email server and everything has been fine since then. I believe my ISP handles about 200,000 messages per day; their help desk reported that they are currently getting about one or two incidents per day--for whatever one can make of that incidence rate. Do note that in my cause there has only been one incident of this sort, and I have only circumstantial evidence that there was something wrong with the message from J.L. when it left her computer or her ISP's mail server. Rollie