Re: sabotage?

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 07:31:17AM +0100, Scottie Bowman wrote:

> It happened before I acquired the Norton
> Antivirus progam - which vets outgoing
> mail before transmission - so there must be
> some other explanation. Thought Police?
> Reverse Watergate?

Hmmmm. I'm not familiar with either your mail program or your version
of Norton AV. However, the mailer most likely has a place on your
hard disk where it enqueues outgoing mail. If you could dig through
the folders that comprise your mailer and its pieces, perhaps you
could find a folder that might be called either "queue," or "out" or
"outgoing" or something like that. You can even send me (privately) a
directory listing of all the folders associated with mail delivery and
receipt. I'll do what I can to dig. Tomorrow or another day this
week, I will lie low and, at leisure, will dig through a setup of a
mailer such as you use. Just tell me privately what name
and version it is.

It would also be helpful to know how your Norton AV program enqueues
outgoing mail before the AV engine mail gets and scans it and then
sends it. I set up a version for a friend who is a writer and is
totally untechnical. His setup is such that I never see his mail,
and incoming and outgoing messages go to an ersatz mail identity on
his system that processes messages. It is *possible* that mail could
be getting choked up in there.

Whatever it is, I'm willing to give it a try, if you want. Just say
what you want. That and 50,000 dollars in the currency of your
choice! (That's a joke.)

I repeat, for the humor-deprived, that the bit about currency was
purely a joke. Once I was badly burned by someone who could not tell
the difference between a joke a not-a-joke.

Cheers,

--tim

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Received on Mon Sep 2 23:36:01 2002