RE: DOSing Outlook 2003

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

Thanks to everyone for the pointers in the Microsoft knowledgebase. However,
my problem was a bit different and definitely related to the contents of the
message. The message was sent via Lotus Notes and included an attached Word
document. The only odd thing that I saw about the message is that it was
sent to 1,200 people. Yikes. I wonder how many of these folks lost their use
of email.

I manually deleted the message using POP3 and now everything is working
again.

Richard 


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From: Brance Amussen [mailto:brance () jhu edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:39 AM
To: 'Richard M. Smith'; funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] DOSing Outlook 2003


OK, don't know what happened with the previous email.. Anyhow.. 
 
Here's the link. 
 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911084/en-us
 
Everytime I have had this trouble I have found on my exchange server that
there was an email in the users box (the user who had the same trouble)
which had an extremely large subject line. Like a few paragraphs long
subject line. 
Not sure if this would effect any other mail servers. 
 
A quick work around is to access the mailbox via outlook web access, which
doesn't seem to have the same issue, and delete the mail from there. 
Hope this helps.
 
Brance :)_S


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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Richard M. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:11 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] DOSing Outlook 2003


Hi,
 
I've got some sort of bad email message in my POP3 inbox which Outlook 2003
is refusing to download.  I'm not sure what the problem is with the message,
but Outlook is complaining that it doesn't have enough memory to process the
message.  See the attached screen shot.  
 
However, I am now stuck because I can no longer read email from this
account.  I suspect the message is a spam message, so there are maybe other
people in the same boat.
 
This seems like a security problem.  An email reader shouldn't get into a
mode where it can't read email, right?
 
I'm going to investigate this problem a bit later in the day with Telnet,
but I'm wondering what is the official procedure for fixing this kind of
problem inside of Outlook?  

Richard

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