RE: [gotmail] Got it working slightly more than it was...

[Stephen Beaudry]

   I agree, that this is little better than the worst spam out there. 
Still, if it causes gotmail to break, it should probably be fixed.. 
Due to this notion, I kept a copy of the message :)  I'll attach it
with this message.  Hopefully too much of it wasn't lost in the
forwarding.

   Incidentally, I notice that gotmail uses the "<pre></pre>" tags for
separating out the contents of the e-mail [somewhere about line 820],
but when viewing the source of a hotmail page with an e-mail open, I'm
unable to find any <pre></pre> tags...  any suggestion why?

Cheers,

...Steve...

> I noticed that the 'Member Services' mails are 'special' too.  Should
> there
> be special handling for these?  I personally consider them to be 'spam'
> and
> I propose just deleting the darned things.
>
>
>>From: "Stephen Beaudry" <address@hidden>
>>Reply-To: address@hidden, address@hidden
>>To: address@hidden
>>Subject: [gotmail] Got it working slightly more than it was...
>>Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 11:24:25 -0800 (PST)
>>
>>OK, Hello fellas...
>>
>>    I've been using gotmail as a bit of a leach for the past year or so,
>>and must admit that everyone who's contributed has done admirably well
>>to keep it as stable as it is.  Thank you..  When it broke this time, I
>>decided to see what I can do to help.  Unfortunately, I'm not a
>>tried-and-true perl programmer.  I have done my share of it though, and
>>hacked around a bit to see what I could come up with.
>>
>>    I've attached the gotmail script that I ended up with, with the
>>following notes.
>>     - I really havn't added anything..  I did, but removed it when it
>>       didn't work :)
>>     - The "original" code for downloading the actual e-mail, which was
>>       commented out [lines 908-910], works, whereas the stuff that was
>> not
>>       commented [lines 898-907], doesn't...  I simply switched back to
>> the
>>       original code...  This gets by the 404 error reported in the last
>>       mailing.
>>     - The script, as included, works for me to download and delete all
>> the
>>       mail in my Inbox, with one exception.
>>     - "Hotmail Member Services" distributed an e-mail with a different
>>       format than a regular e-mail.  I notice even the message icon is
>>       different.  As long as this message was in my Inbox, gotmail
>>       failed.  I'm assuming this to be the lack of a <pre> tag in the
>>       message, but I can't find it, even in other messages source...
>>     - gotmail does NOT download the junkmail folder.  Being as I havn't
>>       actually logged into hotmail in months, I can't say if it even
>> used
>>       to.
>>
>>    Sorry for rambling so much...  Just trying to provide as much info as
>>possible.  I hope it helps somewhat.
>>
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