email weirdness

[redbird]

I tried the advice from comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows, and while I convinced Eudora to see the headers of the large messages, it didn't download them even when asked to explicitly. So I asked my brother to resend the photos, and Eudora is again failing to see the message at all.

Even more worrying, I got a call this morning from a friend, answering an email of mine. I'd written to her a couple of days ago; she replied; early this morning I sent a note saying "I haven't heard from you", so she decided to use the phone. We sorted out the matter at hand, but I still haven't see this. And since she was replying to me, odds are good that she had the address right.

If you've written to me and I haven't replied, this may be why.

Comments

e-mail debugging

[webbob.livejournal.com]

If this mail is going to the NYC-based shell-account ISP we have in common, you could log in and use pine to check out the contents of your mailbox.

The only other advice I have is to check which procmail filters you're using, and investigate any procmail log you have for reasons why some e-mail might be rejected.

If you haven't used pine or haven't used it to check out attachments, here's a synopsis of what I'd do:

pine
type letter "i" to get INBOX viewing
use "n" and "p" to move the cursor up and down the list
cursor to the message in question
type ">" to enter the message view
type ">" again to get a listing of attachments/enclosures

Read screen for further directions on how to save attachments, etc..

I think "q" will quit from any point in this process.

Re: e-mail debugging

[redbird]

The shell (using mutt, actually) is how I found out that I had messages lurking but not being downloaded; the one from Nancy-who-called-this-morning wasn't one of them.

I may try pine, though. Thanks.