Re: [NTISP] MS OE dot-termination patch available for 3.1.2 Post.Office

Geoffrey L. Scully ( (no email) )
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:36:47 -0800

Aol has killed us since we started using Post.Office also.

"Dave P." wrote:

> I'm glad to see that PO is resolving the problem with OE,
> however, I have a customer I recently
> switched to Netscape communicator 4.0 and guess what... same
> thing. She is hanging on
> large emails around 10k. They are always from AOL. Is it a
> conspiracy?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Wren <paul.wren@software.com>
> To: ntisp@iea-software.com <ntisp@iea-software.com>
> po@clnk.com <po@clnk.com>
> Cc: support@software.com <support@software.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 10:11 PM
> Subject: [NTISP] MS OE dot-termination patch available for
> 3.1.2 Post.Office
>
> >Regarding the problems with MS OE and Post.Office:
> >
> >Previously Software.com had debugged the issue with MS OE
> client "hangs"
> >that resulted from a problem in OE regarding the
> termination of a message.
> >A workaround is available in the 3.5.3 release of
> Post.Office. The
> >activation steps have been posted to this list, or they are
> available from
> >support@software.com.
> >
> >This did not help those of you with version 3.1.2, of
> course. We've
> >corrected that oversight, and we now have a patch available
> (a replacement
> >POP-Server binary) that implements the same workaround that
> is in 3.5.3 for
> >the MS OE bug.
> >
> >We believe this solves all the known or documented "hangs"
> encountered with
> >the MS OE client. We're not terribly comfortable with this
> workaround since
> >it must modify the body of the message (it inserts an extra
> carriage-return,
> >which should have no visible effect since it is not coupled
> with a
> >line-feed), but since the alternative (getting your
> customers to upgrade to
> >the fixed version of MS OE) is not too attractive, we are
> making the
> >workaround available to those who wish to use it.
> >
> >Please contact support@software.com for the patch and
> information on
> >activating the workaround.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >-- PW
> >
> >
> >
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