I am getting really really sick of this.
Apr. 16th, 2002 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reynardoI 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.
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.
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Asian spam
Date: 2002-04-16 05:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-04-16 07:22 am (UTC)(A pound to a penny says it's probably a case of ISP fsckup, inasmuch as that normally happens when locking on you mailbox is broken, but I really need system details.)
Re: Asian spam
Date: 2002-04-16 07:25 am (UTC)For what it's worth (hands over $0.02 Aus)
Date: 2002-04-16 09:48 am (UTC)You may be right about the ISP fsck-up - if I try to access the mail through the webmail option, I still can't delete the blessed piece of mail (if perchance I catch it before it downloads).
And this ISP is one of the most luser-run-and-operated I've ever come across. the least problem I have with them is that as less than 2% of their customers read newsgroups, they don't bother keeping an eye on the updating.
Re: For what it's worth (hands over $0.02 Aus)
Date: 2002-04-16 03:22 pm (UTC)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)
Date: 2002-04-16 07:16 pm (UTC)Re: Asian spam
Date: 2002-04-16 09:08 pm (UTC)As soon as blackholing is an option, I'll be doing something of that nature (and as soon as I'm not running a mailing list, so I don't have to be able to accept mail from all and sundry, which will be soon.) At present I'm on a UNSW account, so all I can do is filter.
Re: For what it's worth (hands over $0.02 Aus)
Date: 2002-04-17 03:11 pm (UTC)Re: Asian spam
Date: 2002-04-17 03:12 pm (UTC)On the other hand, I've never received spam from them either, so I might as well exempt them too.
Re: Asian spam
Date: 2002-04-17 06:31 pm (UTC)Look at it this way. Maybe you'll get an email from Peter Jackson offering you a part in 'Silmarillion: the Musical'.
(Bagsies playing Gothmog.)