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["Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc@xxxxxxxxxx>

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On ?, Sam Ewalt wrote:

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> Mail downloads have been consistently aborting after longer messages
> before Insight gives the command to display  a new index. Today I
> came back from a long weekend and had 19 messages. Insight aborted at
> least seven times before I got through all 19. Several of the emails
> came up missing from the index and could not be found. I knew they
> had been there waiting on the server bcause I had read them previously
> through a webmail interface that my ISP offers.

> I don't think this is any better than before when Insight would
> "choke" on malformed emails and you couldn't get past thenm without
> telnet or webmail or another email client that wouldn't choke.

> Insight is not forming a proper index of downloaded emails when it
> aborts and it is not always leaving the email on the server for a second
> attempt.

First-off:

Insight.exe does NOT download your email... core.exe does it.
http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ara-gpl/core-ins.txt

Second:

http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/arachne/
(updated on May 5, 2006 with 2 small bug fixes)
a190core.zip(pop3 abort fix in updated core.exe)
^^^^^^^^^^^^<---link to updated core.exe which fixes the mail
download abort problems.

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