On  1 Apr 97, Randy Vess <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>      I am experiencing a problem with email I am recieving via the
>      list server.  I am running CC:Mail ver2.2 on several Win95
>      systems.  When attempting to open a majority of the email sent to
>      me (only from this list server) CCMail crashes with a "Program
>      Performed Illegal Instruction"....
>
>      I went down to our Computer Help(less) desk for some advice and
>      was told that if I get sent email the is MIME encoded, our mail
>      server does not know how to handle it...  my question therefore
>      is.. does anyone else have a problem similiar to this?
>
>      My workaround situation is to forward all the email i get from
>      the list to myself (without opening it first)... seems that then
>      i can open it and read it without causing CCMail to crash...

If the MIME is the problem, he can set his subscription to NOMIME.
He should send mail to the LISTSERV address with the command

        SET listname NOMIME

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