[X4U] What Is IMAP ?

[Eugene]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:20:36AM CDT, Neil <Lists at mac.com> wrote:
: 
: on 5/3/06 9:19 PM, Randy B.Singer wrote:
: 
: > Also, recently, there have been a number of malicious e-mails sent out
: > that will crash some e-mail programs during downloading just by the use
: > of certain characters in their subject line.  Mail Siphon or a similar
: > program easily fixes this by deleting the message on the POP server.
: 
: I've had many messages over the year that crashed my e-mail programs.  They
: used to all be messages from AOL accounts that had been forwarded many
: times, but for the past several years they seem to all be spam.  Anyway, I
: just use web based e-mail to delete the offenders and I'm back in business. 

Better to move away from mail clients that cannot tolerant
errant data.  It is completely ridiculous to allow a few bad
characters in a mail message to crash your mail program.
And this is supposed to be the 21st century!


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Eugene
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