[Tfug] Webmail interface trouble

[Kelley G]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 08:54:53AM -0700, ewf wrote:


>> The webmail interface for Dakotacom apparently chokes.  That is,
>> certain regions of the web page do not show up when spammers write
>> an extremely wordy subject line in their e-mails. I had to poke and
>> click around to get the web page to format properly. Once I deleted
>> the spams the problem went away.
>  
>

Have you tried with different browsers/renderers?  The two biggies
would be (mozilla/firefox/epiphany)/gecko and konquerer/khtml.  This
sounds like more of a rendering "bug" than a site problem.  I quote
"bug" because it's extremely likely that the spammers are sending
something that's nonstandard html   It could be either, though.  I
don't use dakotacom so can't check myself.

					-Michael
-- Michael D. Stenner mstenner at ece.arizona.edu ECE Department, the 
University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 
85721-0104 ECE 524G

-- 

you may be seeing rendering problems when a html message has broken headers or uses wacky iframe stuff.

i block all broken headers and other shennanigans with a qmailqueue script on my qmail smtp servers.

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