I'll attach a text file with a piece of the message that got cut off from the MBX file... if you view it in Notepad with word-wrap turned off, you can see very easily where the message got cut off at. You can view where I quoted from the message in the previous correspondences below and match it up.

Web Messaging is what I was using to view the message, but I also tried getting the message via Outlook Express using POP3, and it was still missing some parts. For the time being, I think I'll just have her try to get Hotmail to send plain-text... I would ask her all her settings and everything, but she is a tad computer illiterate and I doubt would be much help. I might could just get her password from her, or just go setup a Hotmail account on my own and play with it tonight. But the only thing that separates her messages from the others I've received are that hers are in HTML. Well, I take that back, I got one other message in HTML from someone, but it was very short, just maybe 10 or 15 lines.

Thanks for all you guys' help! David

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Daniel Donnelly" <tech_ddd@ipswitch.com> Reply-To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:49:10 -0500

>David, > >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 >> >> >>