[NTLUG:Discuss] Bizzare email behavior in Mozilla.

[Terry]

BTW, -  OpenWebmail is very nice / user-friendly.  I hope a lot of
ISPs are using it - I know some are and I rather like it.  I don't
know much about the administrative end, but the user end is about as
good as it gets IMO.
See: http://openwebmail.org/

On 4/24/05, Terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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