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Tuesday, July 2, 2002
started 7/2/2002; 9:42:16 AM - last post 7/2/2002; 8:24:10 PM

Doc Searls - Tuesday, July 2, 2002

7/2/2002; 1:42:16 PM (reads: 4574, responses: 2)

Arg2Ahh

We're back and unpacking. Tired, hungry. The kid is wired to the max after being strapped in the seats of two cars (1 and 3 hours each) and one 757 (5.5 hours, counting the holding pattern over Colorado). So we've gotta go play or something.

One bit of good news: I figured out that the MBC below was from the address line and the rest was the subject line. Threw me off. Anyway, I killed it in the server and now all 400-something mails are here and queue'd for reading ... soon.

Arg, cont'd

Sitting in a lounge at Newark Airport (slogan: "Useful signage under construction"), on hold with my ISP, trying to get help uncorking my email. Three hundred twenty-three messages are backed up behind one spam that won't download. When I go onto the server and look around I can't find the thing. Nor can the ISP, apparently. And over this 26kbps connection, it'll take more time than I have to finish running down the problem, which now looks like this:

And thus we arrive at a fitting end to the least connected trip I've taken in years. Hey, the company was fun. Sometimes the best connecting isn't the least bit electronic, y'know?

See ya'll tonight in California.

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Dan Lyke - Mail problems

7/2/2002; 10:36:59 PM (reads: 620, responses: 0)

Over the years I've learned to use Telnet to unclog stuck pipes for folks with choked mail software. Example given here is for POP, IMAP folks will have to read the appropriate RFC.

For POP, Telnet to port 110 of your mail machine. Type in "USER yourusername", hit enter, type in "PASS your password", enter again. At this point you should get a prompt giving you some status information. "TOP" takes two arguments, the message, and the number of lines from the body of the message to show. So "TOP 1 20" will show you the headers and the first 20 lines from the message clogging the queue. "DELE 1" will delete that message, and "QUIT" will finalize the process.

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Dennis Lee - Re: Monday, July 1, 2002

7/3/2002; 12:24:10 AM (reads: 605, responses: 0)

An appliance repair man was here to fix the drier; the power blinked when he did something; my linux net server went down .... a bit later; talking to the wife; playing with the cat; I surf into Doc's blog with my new iBook and see the error message. I try to click the stop, then try the OK ( never really looking at any of the messages ) Then force quit mail and restart my iBook! Still later back to Doc's blog, wooo! what's up? this time I actually look at things. Boy would I be red if..........

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