OT: Strange Outlook behavior...

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com>:

> Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Kenneth Brody been jivin' 'bout like:
> >
> > Can you telnet into your mail server's SMTP port without any delay?
> If
> > you know SMTP, you can try reading an e-mail that way.  If it goes
> > without any delay, then it's probably not a problem at the server end.
> > If even telnet/SMTP takes a long time, perhaps it's something at the
> > server end, and not your system?
>
> Uhm, Ken?  Read what you just wrote.  :)  Unless he's using SMPTE, which
> I know he's not, that doesn't make a bit of sense.  He'd need to talk to
> POP3 or IMAP.  I happen to believe/know he's using IMAP nowadays, so I'm
> going to be of limited value in helping in that area, as I never learned
> the raw IMAP protocol.  POP3 I can do blindfolded.  But to -read- his
> mail, he wouldn't use SMTP.  Not sure why you said that.  Saturday, I
> guess.

Yes, that should be s/SMTP/POP3/g

"Blame it on Saturday" sounds good enough to me.  ;-)

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