This almost sounds like 'chunking' of the SMTP message (sending it is 'chunks', not the whole thing at once). However, IMail does not support that ESMTP capability, so it is not the 'cause' (the sending server would know this and not use this mode). And if a 'chunk' were missing, I think it would be of a fixed size, not variable (although it has been a while since I read that RFC, so I might be wrong on this).

Would you like someone here in the forum to send you a large text message to see how it is received? I'm sure that could be arranged, just ask! (whoops, I see you say other senders are OK)

Are the Hotmail graphics, true graphics or just characters? If characters, they would be part of the plain text data, but real graphics would have to be 'attachments' or they could be HTML code. If graphics and true plain text mode (non-html), then they might not show up inline, in the email.

Follow Scotts suggestion! Open the main.mbx file, with notepad, and see if you can locate the message and view its contents. You can attach the main.mbx file and others can look at it, too (keep the file modest, as it will be sent to everyone on this list, or send direct to people who volunteer to read it, yes, that means me). Do you see the complete text of the message? How about when viewing the message using Web Messaging?

Find out what settings (all of them!) this person uses in his Hotmail (or other?)client. Try them from your account, and see which might have that effect?

Happy Holidays!

Daniel Donnelly ________________________________________________________

----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dousette" <dave@hesenergy.net> To: <IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 10:55 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] imail 6.05 truncating my messages?

> The same message was sent twice to me, once straight from Hotmail and once relayed through MailAndNews. The same parts were missing both times, but there is nothing special about the parts. The first message that showed up like that, she'd used a lot of the Hotmail graphical smiley faces and such, so I thought that might have been the problem, but on this next one she just used text and it cuts off from the middle of a word down through the end of that particular paragraph, then it picks it up again. Here's an example of a message received through Imail... > > "Oops, I have another hiccup attack, I'm still in pain from earlier on today, so I best go, get these stopped before they tear a hole in my chest-do you ever get crazy bouts of the hiccups where they just stay with you for a whole day? I do, and I h > > Take care, > > the hiccupper :)" > > And here's the same message fragment on MailAndNews... > > "Oops, I have another hiccup attack, I'm still in pain from earlier on today, so I best go, get these stopped before they tear a hole in my chest-do you ever get crazy bouts of the hiccups where they just stay with you for a whole day? I do, and I hate it muchly! > > Take care, > > the hiccupper :)" > > As you can see, it didn't cut off much, but the fact that it didn't just take it straight off the end of the message struck me as odd, as well. This one just happened to occur at the end of the message, but before the "Take care" part. Sometimes it occurs in the middle of the message, deleting the last few lines off of a paragraph there, then picking back up where it left off with no further problems. It's only happening with this one sender, too, my other friends with Hotmail accounts' email comes through fine. I have the "max size" on the server set to 0, as well as the "max message" count, and I'm nowhere near the 25 megs I allowed for my mailbox. > > Thanks! > David Dousette > dave@hesenergy.net > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: "R. Scott Perry" <horizons@declude.com> > Reply-To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com > Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:56:47 -0500 > > >> I have a friend who tends to send me longer emails from Hotmail, around 15 > >or 20k of text, > >> and they arrive with pieces missing from them > > > >If the same message is sent twice, is it the same pieces missing? > > > >Have you checked to see what the missing pieces are, and if there is > >anything special about them (for example, they all begin with "<!---" or > >"From <" or "end")? > > -Scott > > > >Declude: Anti-spam and Anti-virus solutions for IMail. > >http://www.declude.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >