- Certain spam emails now cause Comcast to terminate connection
- Posted by Don Awalt on February 12th, 2004
Is anyone else seeing this?
Over the past couple of weeks, I find that when downloading email with
Outlook Express, (latest version - Windows XP), the connection will
terminate at some point in the download with "Your server has unexpectedly
terminated the connection. Possible causes.... Account: Server: Protocol:
POP3 Server Response: "+OK" Port: 110 Secure (SSL): No, Error Number:
0x800CCC0F.
I can then go to Comcast's web mail interface, count to the message number,
it's spam, delete it, and the download moves past it.
1. It's not all spam - just some
2. I really don't think it's on my end - I disable the firewall and Norton
and it still happens.
Any ideas?
thanks
- Posted by Bill Crocker on February 12th, 2004
Yes, I've been having the same problem! I'm running Win2k, with Outlook
2000. I'm not sure what this has suddenly become a problem. When it
happens, and you access your mail, using their web mail, be sure to use the
option to report the spam, don't just delete them. I've been doing this and
the problem is just about gone.
Bill Crocker
"Don Awalt" <dawalt@deletethiscomcast.net> wrote in message
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- Posted by Michael Walsh on February 12th, 2004
Don Awalt wrote:
Every once in a while I get a message that just hangs up and never
downloads. I have to go to my webmail interface and delete the
message before the incoming email can be read.
I don't have Comcast, I am on Adelphia and I am using Netscape
so I don't believe it is anything you are doing. It sounds as if
Comcast is better than Adelphia at this because at least they send
you a message telling you that your connection has been terminated.
I don't know the reason, perhaps some more knowledgable person
will comment.
Mike Walsh
- Posted by Bert Hyman on February 12th, 2004
dawalt@deletethiscomcast.net (Don Awalt) wrote in
news:aMedncacGLH3FrbdRVn-hA@giganews.com:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;329916
OL2002: "Error 0x800ccc0f: Connection to the Server Was Interrupted"
Error Message When You Try to Send or Receive an E-Mail Message
--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | bert@visi.com
- Posted by Bill Crocker on February 12th, 2004
Maybe not such good advice. Almost without exception, when this occurs, it
is because of virus infected email, residing on my cable providers system.
Disabling anti-virus email scanning, may let it download, but then you take
the risk of being infected.
Bill Crocker
"Bert Hyman" <bert@visi.com> wrote in message
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- Posted by Andy Hill on February 12th, 2004
"Don Awalt" <dawalt@deletethiscomcast.net> wrote:
was seeing this behavior last week when POPing from my wife's Netzero account
using Outlook 2000. In all cases, it happened when Norton AV 2003 detected a
MyDoom infected email.
- Posted by Bruce on February 12th, 2004
Andy Hill <andy_hill@hp.com> wrote in
news:6qmn20lc3aemfdbf33cpf3ckbttff1rev4@4ax.com:
I agree it's virus related. My in-laws collect att.net email using
Outlook Express. It was hanging 10 days ago due to virus laden emails.
Once we deleted the emails via the web interface, downloading to OE
continued normally.
Bruce
- Posted by nobody@junk.min.net on February 12th, 2004
MR2 for Windows (e-mail and newsreader) may be less vulnerable than
Outlook Express. www.mr2ice.com
Alan
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- Posted by Gary Dyrkacz on February 12th, 2004
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:19:21 -0500, "Don Awalt"
<dawalt@deletethiscomcast.net> wrote:
not the first time, but it is the most persistent run of this kind of
behavior I have had. Although I have not disabled my anitvirus
checker, it usually pops up if there is a problem. Since I have not
been getting warnings, I though it might be due to a malformed
message, bad html code or some such.
Gary Dyrkacz
REMOVETHISdyrgcmn@comcast.net
Radio Control Aircraft/Paintball Physics/Paintball for 40+
http://home.attbi.com/~dyrgcmn/
- Posted by dr on February 13th, 2004
OE has a reputation for barfing at poorly formed email. Virus related? To
the extend the virus sends out email with poorly formed mail headers, yes.
But it can come from most anywhere. Mostly though from mass mailing
programs. OE not gracefully handling errors creates a lot of work for email
admins.
- Posted by Tim Smith on February 14th, 2004
In article <aMedncacGLH3FrbdRVn-hA@giganews.com>, Don Awalt wrote:
There are some spams that don't bother to terminate the header with the
required blank line. Some mail software refuses to handle these bogus
messages. I've only seen clients do that, but perhaps some servers also
have trouble with them?
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--Tim Smith
- Posted by Grinch on February 14th, 2004
"Michael Walsh" <mp1walsh@Adelphia.net> wrote in message
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The message is being generated by the mail client not the ISP. It looks to
me like MS do better than Netscape in that regard.
Grinch
- Posted by Carl C. Jackson on February 18th, 2004
Ditto in Seattle, WA!
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