RE: Got it working slightly more than it was...

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" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected], [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>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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