curious pine problem

From: Dave Brown (dhbrown_at_hobbes.dhbrown.net)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 04:02:39 GMT

I'm still using old reliable "pine" (v 4.44), but it's giving me an
occasional problem. Every now and then I get an email which pine refuses
to open. Instead I get some kind of "illegal characters" which pine can't
handle.

I used to go read my /var/spool mail file with 'tail' and 'less' until I
discovered that mozilla-mail could read them (as I pop stuff to local
using fetchmail).

These emails seem to contain some kind of html formatting. And often,
they're business correspondence, which I need to read, not junk mail, and
from enough different places that I know there's some email client(s)
out there that dorks things up.

Anyone else encountered this? What do you suppose is going on? 

-- 
Dave Brown  Austin, TX

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