[NTLUG:Discuss] Bizzare email behavior in Mozilla.

[Terry]

I guess it's stuff like this that'll force [the rest of] us to give up
on PC based mail clients all together and point us toward web-based
email.
It's a shame, but it appears to be grim future for PC based mail
clients. (Hope I'm wrong... but... Who wants to put up with stuff like
this ... ???)

On 4/24/05, Tom Adelstein <adelste at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 17:01 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> > Steve Baker wrote:
> > > I'm reading email in Mozilla (and SuSE 9.1) and recently - about once
> > > every day or two - I get an email in some foreign character set that
> > > (if I inadvertantly display it) takes about 10 minutes to download
> > > via DSL, locks up Mozilla completely while it's downloading and
> > > finally starts 'infecting' the text labels in Mozilla's menues and
> > > prompts so that they too are displayed in the font of the message.
> > >
> > > When the message finally appears, it's some typical piece of HTML
> > > spam.
> > >
> > > I have to shut down Mozilla to restore normal font behavior - and
> > > while the message is downloading, the only way to stop it is to
> > > open another window and do a killall -9 mozilla!!
> > >
> > > Generally, I delete these messages without displaying them - and
> > > most of the time, Mozilla's baysian filters trap them - so this only
> > > affects me once in a great while.
> > >
> > > But being a Linux user and generally supremely oblivious of viruses and
> > > other such nastiness coming via email, this is a bit of a shock to
> > > the system.
> > >
> > > So - lots of questions:
> > >
> > > 1) What the heck it is doing to my fonts?  It seems like this
> > >    must be a Mozilla bug.
> > >
> > > 2) Is there a way in Mozilla to automatically filter out messages
> > >    that use a particular character set?  After all, if I can't
> > >    understand it, I might as well filter it.
> > >
> > > 3) Why is there no way to interrupt this thing while it's eating
> > >    all of my time/bandwidth?
> >
> > My advice (not sure of your exact problem though)....
> >
> > Turn off (for Mail and Newsgroups):
> >
> > HTML in email
> > Remote image loading
> > Java/Javascript
> > Disable plugins
> >
> > Not sure if this will help, but good things to do anyhow.
> 
> Chris et al,
> 
> This bizzare email is making the rounds. It doesn't matter what mail
> user agent you're using -- you get an email that will not download and
> it stops the remote queue from delivering. Mine has been from my local
> ISP's mail service.
> 
> If you have access to your mail through the web, you can delete
> everything but your white list. If you don't know the sender, consider
> deleting those emails also.
> 
> Make sure your clear the trash.
> 
> Restart your local email client (you may have to do this more that
> once). I use evolution and after closing it had to find the processes
> still running (ps aux |grep evolution) and kill those.
> 
> Restart the mail client, start your download and it should sync back up.
> 
> This has gone on for several days. It will eventually stop.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> --
> Tom Adelstein <adelste at yahoo.com>
> 
> 
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