Nifty Hat Mitch <mitch48 at sbcglobal.net> emails hang my mail client

[Björn Persson]

James Ronald wrote:
> Every message posted by Nifty Hat Mitch <mitch48 at sbcglobal.net> hangs when
> getting mail from my ISPs mail server.  After logging on using Web mail and
> deleting all his messages I'm then able to continue getting my mail.  Anyone
> else having this problem? Yes, I'm using outlook express and I've tried
> outlook and it fails in the same way.

It's possible that they both have the same POP code so they might have 
the same bug. Trying it with a mail client not written by Microsoft 
would help isolating the problem.

> My ISP does not have a clue as they
> claim it's a spam or virus problem.  Any ideas?  Is it Mitch's mail client
> or my ISP?  I know it couldn't be a MS issue ;-)

Try to figure out which POP server your ISP is using. Connect to it on 
port 110 with any Telnet program. "telnet pop.example.com 110" in 
Fedora.) If you're lucky, the first thing the server prints will be its 
name and version.

Björn Persson