I am getting really really sick of this.

[reynardo]

I hate getting the asian spam. It's pointless and takes time to delete and everything.

But worse than that, every now and then one arrives that WILL NOT BE DELETED. And what's worse, it MUNGES every piece of mail I receive after it for about three days. I'll get a header indicating it's a piece of mail from my mother, but when I open it, it's got the end of one message from a mailing list and the beginning of another from someone else.

I don't know what mail I haven't been getting, and I can't get rid of the offending piece. Hitting delete doesn't work, trying to move the mail to another folder doesn't work, scnadisking and other maintenance acts don't work, even if performed off-line with all java options turned off.

(Yes, if any of the techie-types who read this have ideas, please let me know. By comment. Not by email.)

Grump.

Comments

Re: For what it's worth (hands over $0.02 Aus)

[ex-cerebrate131.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I would at this point wager large sums of money on ISP fuckupage, given that what you've described are the classic symptoms of delivering mail to a mailbox with broken file locking, leading to different processes writing to your mailbox simultaneously and getting mail overwritten and mingled more or less at random.

Especially common with multiple mail servers using NFS, because NFS's file-locking is a) nonexistent and b) fundamentally broken, so you get it a lot unless you know exactly what you're doing, which doesn't sound like those guys.

Re: For what it's worth (hands over $0.02 Aus)

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Quite likely, because using the same Netscape on the exact same computer - but downloading from a different ISP - I don't get the same problem. Spam yes, breakages no.

Re: For what it's worth (hands over $0.02 Aus)

[ex-cerebrate131.livejournal.com]

lockd strikes again.