Re: Truncated Mail and Other Mail Weirdnesses
By Terry Smythe
On Tuesday 2 Jan 96, Bill Chapman said:
> My mail ended with
> "the magnet return spring does not have very good"
>
> [ Editor's note: The digest should always end with 3 lines
> [ saying:
> [
> [ ---------------------
> [ End of Digest
> [ ---------------------
> [ Anyone else having weirdness like this ?
Yes, I have had the problem, but I suspect it is not with the daily digest squirted out from Jody's machine. It is most likely a shortcoming of some mail readers. I ordinarily use UniQWK 4.2 as my offline mail reader because of its many desirable features. However, it does have a shortcoming in that it truncates single large messages of xxk or bigger.
The full data is there in the incoming mail packet (I can see it there at the hex level), so when I encounter these occasionally glitches, I simply revert back momentarily to humble old SLMR (Silly Little Message Reader), and save the oversize message to a disk file.
While I can't recall if I've noticed this with these digests, I do encounter this situation occasionally with the daily digests I receive from SPEBSQSA. Most are about 30k in size, but every once in a while, one comes through as a whopping 90k single message.
Regards,
Terry
Terry Smythe | *Sounds of Yesteryear*
55 Rowand Avenue | Restoration and enjoyment of vintage
Winnipeg, MB R3J 2N6 | automatic musical instruments
(204) 832-3982 | email: smythe@mbnet.mb.ca |
(Message sent Sun 7 Jan 1996, 04:52:17 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.) |
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