Mail will randomly drop letters from messages

I have been noticing this phenomena for the last several months. Mail will will randomly drop letters & numbers from outgoing messages. They are not being dropped upon receipt of the message, it will drop letters & numbers from sent messages. I maintain several machines and I have noticed this from each of my users machines. They are all running some version of 10.4 (10.4 - 10.4.6). I did not notice this behavior under 10.3. It is a minor annoyance if it is personal mail that is being sent, but when it is professional correspondence it makes you look like an idiot. I have had it drop letters from a URL so that the recipient could not get to the page I sent.
I get no error messages or any pattern of behavior that I can identify. It does not happen to all messages only a few.
Anyone else notice this happening? If so, have you been able to correct it?
Mac OS X (10.4.6)

HI,
That is where the Pics are. Each App keeps a record of it's Recent Pic.
It pulls the one from the Contacts List (Address Book)
What it does not do is tell where you can turn the pic Off.
I checked Preferences and Menus and could not see a Setting.
10:45 PM Wednesday; October 31, 2012
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I have two 3TB WD SATA hard disks containing two RAID-1 volumes set up as follows:
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run_hook ()
local keyCopyDec keyCopyEnc keyMountPoint maxTries retryDelay \
shutdownOnFail
# customizable ############################################################
keyCopyDec="/crypto_keyfile.bin" # temp storage for decrypted key data
keyCopyEnc="/crypto_keyfile.enc" # temp storage for encrypted key data
keyMountPoint="/ckey" # key storage device mount point
maxTries=3 # max number of decrypt attempts
retryDelay=2 # delay in seconds between retries
shutdownOnFail=0 # shut down computer if decrypt fails
#+0=yes, 1=no
# /customizable ###########################################################
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shutdownMsg
local E_NOFILE
local KEY NOKEY SSLKEY
local CSQUIET OIFS
local cryptDev cryptName keyDev keyFile keyFs keyType pass passPrompt \
success tries
abortMsg="Aborting..."
passPromptKey="Key passphrase: "
passPromptVol="LUKS passphrase: "
passWrong="Invalid passphrase."
secdecFormat="secdec=cryptdev:dmname:keydev:keyfs:keyfile"
shutdownMsg="Shutting down computer. You may try again later."
E_NOFILE=66
KEY=1
NOKEY=0
SSLKEY=2
OIFS=$IFS
[ "$(echo "${quiet}" | awk '{print tolower($0)}')" == "y" ] && \
CSQUIET=">/dev/null 2>&1"
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# Ask the user for boolean input.
# $1: The question to pose.
# $2: A string containing single characters, separated by spaces, which are
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# $3: A string containing single characters, separated by spaces, which are
#+keys pressed that would return a boolean false (1).
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#+$2.
# Returns 1 if the user presses a key that generates a character found in
#+$3.
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local keyin
[ ${#} -ne 3 ] && return 2
echo -n "$1"
while true; do
read -sn1 keyin
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*) echo -n -e "\a";;
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[ ${#} -ne 2 ] || [ -z "${1}" ] || [ -z "${2}" ] && return 1
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if [ -z "${secdec}" ]; then
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EOF
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keyType=$?
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"u U" "t T"; then
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fi
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if [ ${keyType} -eq ${NOKEY} ]; then
askForPass "$passPromptVol" "pass"
/sbin/cryptsetup luksOpen "$cryptDev" "$cryptName" "$CSQUIET" <<EOF
$pass
EOF
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[ ${success} -ne 0 ] && err "$passWrong"
else
if [ ${keyType} -eq ${SSLKEY} ]; then
askForPass "$passPromptKey" "pass"
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-out "$keyCopyDec" >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ ${?} -ne 0 ]; then
rm -f "$keyCopyDec" >/dev/null 2>&1
err "$passWrong"
fi
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mv "$keyCopyEnc" "$keyCopyDec" >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
if [ -f "${keyCopyDec}" ]; then
/sbin/cryptsetup --key-file "$keyCopyDec" \
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fi
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[ ${tries} -ge ${maxTries} ] || [ ${success} -eq 0 ] && break
sleep "$retryDelay"
done
if [ ${success} -eq 0 ]; then
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err "LUKS volume was opened, but failed to map to $cryptName."
err "$abortMsg"
exit 1
fi
echo "LUKS volume opened."
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if [ ${shutdownOnFail} -eq 0 ]; then
echo "shutdownMsg"
poweroff -f
fi
exit 1
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mdadm --detail /dev/md1
/dev/md1:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Wed May 30 18:50:05 2012
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 2921467179 (2786.13 GiB 2991.58 GB)
Used Dev Size : 2921467179 (2786.13 GiB 2991.58 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 1
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Wed Sep 12 03:34:52 2012
State : clean, degraded
Active Devices : 1
Working Devices : 1
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Name : archiso:1
UUID : 8ad37e84:f7261906:da3d317e:24080362
Events : 44661
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 4 0 active sync /dev/sda4
1 0 0 1 removed
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/dev/sda4:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x0
Array UUID : 8ad37e84:f7261906:da3d317e:24080362
Name : archiso:1
Creation Time : Wed May 30 18:50:05 2012
Raid Level : raid1
Raid Devices : 2
Avail Dev Size : 5842934631 (2786.13 GiB 2991.58 GB)
Array Size : 2921467179 (2786.13 GiB 2991.58 GB)
Used Dev Size : 5842934358 (2786.13 GiB 2991.58 GB)
Data Offset : 2048 sectors
Super Offset : 8 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : abba1dc3:3fadf7a7:be452bb5:b8bbe97b
Update Time : Wed Sep 12 03:37:48 2012
Checksum : aad3e44b - correct
Events : 44729
Device Role : Active device 0
Array State : A. ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
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Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.2
Feature Map : 0x0
Array UUID : 8ad37e84:f7261906:da3d317e:24080362
Name : archiso:1
Creation Time : Wed May 30 18:50:05 2012
Raid Level : raid1
Raid Devices : 2
Avail Dev Size : 5842934631 (2786.13 GiB 2991.58 GB)
Array Size : 2921467179 (2786.13 GiB 2991.58 GB)
Used Dev Size : 5842934358 (2786.13 GiB 2991.58 GB)
Data Offset : 2048 sectors
Super Offset : 8 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : 09a09f49:b329feaa:3341111b:47b484fe
Update Time : Wed Sep 12 01:50:34 2012
Checksum : 1cdc19c0 - correct
Events : 42869
Device Role : Active device 1
Array State : AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]
204736 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md1 : active raid1 sda4[0]
2921467179 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [U_]
unused devices: <none>
This is md log info of the first reboot after my first recovery:
Sep 9 20:18:03 localhost kernel: [ 1.784225] md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
Sep 9 20:18:03 localhost kernel: [ 2.552971] md: md1 stopped.
Sep 9 20:18:03 localhost kernel: [ 2.553418] md: bind<sdb4>
Sep 9 20:18:03 localhost kernel: [ 2.553574] md: bind<sda4>
Sep 9 20:18:03 localhost kernel: [ 2.554080] md/raid1:md1: active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
Sep 9 20:18:03 localhost kernel: [ 2.554093] md1: detected capacity change from 0 to 2991582391296
Sep 9 20:18:03 localhost kernel: [ 2.566266] md1: unknown partition table
Sep 9 20:18:03 localhost kernel: [ 2.617922] md: md0 stopped.
Sep 9 20:18:03 localhost kernel: [ 2.618382] md: bind<sdb2>
Sep 9 20:18:03 localhost kernel: [ 2.618525] md: bind<sda2>
Sep 9 20:18:03 localhost kernel: [ 2.619175] md/raid1:md0: active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
Sep 9 20:18:03 localhost kernel: [ 2.619203] md0: detected capacity change from 0 to 209649664
Sep 9 20:18:03 localhost kernel: [ 10.933334] md0: unknown partition table
And this is the next time I rebooted:
Sep 10 19:59:07 localhost kernel: [ 1.780481] md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
Sep 10 19:59:07 localhost kernel: [ 2.806037] md: md1 stopped.
Sep 10 19:59:07 localhost kernel: [ 2.806345] md: bind<sda4>
Sep 10 19:59:07 localhost kernel: [ 2.806888] md/raid1:md1: active with 1 out of 2 mirrors
Sep 10 19:59:07 localhost kernel: [ 2.806898] md1: detected capacity change from 0 to 2991582391296
Sep 10 19:59:07 localhost kernel: [ 2.820308] md1: unknown partition table
Sep 10 19:59:07 localhost kernel: [ 2.956599] md: md0 stopped.
Sep 10 19:59:07 localhost kernel: [ 2.957149] md: bind<sdb2>
Sep 10 19:59:07 localhost kernel: [ 2.957269] md: bind<sda2>
Sep 10 19:59:07 localhost kernel: [ 2.958086] md/raid1:md0: active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
Sep 10 19:59:07 localhost kernel: [ 2.958100] md0: detected capacity change from 0 to 209649664
Sep 10 19:59:07 localhost kernel: [ 11.742281] md0: unknown partition table
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I just did a restoration earlier today and on the very next boot, md refuses to use /dev/sdb4. Once I booted, I checked update times (not the ones listed) and /dev/sda4 and /dev/sdb4 were about 4 minutes apart. Since it takes only about a minute for Arch to reboot, including me typing my openssl key password, Arch was running for about 3 minutes without updating. I'm assuming this is of some significance since /dev/md0 reports perfect synchronization.
All of this has been working very well for me for about 6 months now. Both hard drives, which I bought at the same time, are about 9 months old. I checked both drives using smartctl, and both report SMART enabled and passed. SMART attribute data doesn't make a lot of sense to me and I haven't looked up the format, but the reallocation event value is the same as the day I bought the drives, so I'm kind of assuming things are ok there, or at least bad sectors aren't being created.
I hope I've provided all required details here. Any help would be appreciated.
Last edited by cng1024 (2012-09-13 00:02:43)

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Firefox 3.5 and up randomly drop connections

Greetings! The problem I'm having is: Every time I've tried to install and use Firefox 3.5 and up, as I'm browsing the web and I go to, say, click on a link, Firefox will randomly "drop" the connection. It'll pause for 10-15 seconds, then pop up a generic "cannot find server" message. I then go to reload the page, and for another 10-15 seconds it won't even attempt a connection -- it'll just instant-reload with the same generic "cannot find server" message. After that, it will mysteriously be able to connect just fine... for about 2-5 minutes. The problem repeats... over and over...
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== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
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Using
*Comcast Broadband*textMotorola SB5101*textWindows 7 Home Premium*textCisco Linksys *textFireFox 3.6.7*textNorton Security Suite
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We've been given discounts on our packages, however they are useless discounts as we are still having major troubles connecting to the internet.
We've recently noticed a new occurrence, whenever our internet drops, we also lose connection to the hub settings manager. Bare in mind this happens on all devices at the same time. Lights on the hub remain blue, and the speeds on our hub settings page will also remain at 448kbps up and 7mbps down.
I'm really losing the remaining patience I have fast, the call centres don't have a clue what they're doing, today I was talking to the floor manager who even booted me offline to do a test without my approval, which I find unacceptable.
I also find it unacceptable that there is no English call centre, as, not being rude, but it's really hard to understand the foreign call centres, and they find it hard to understand you as well.
So, does anyone here have any resolutions to the internet drops, as we're out of ideas.
(bt claim that the line from the exchange to my hub is *totally* fine)

welcome to the BT community forum where customers help customers and only BT employees are the forum mods
I understand your reluctance to do the test requested by CS but in order for the forum members to help please can you post the adsl stats from your router you may need to 'show detail' to get all stats (if hub enter 192.168.1.254 in your browser and navigate to adsl or if HH4/5 then go to troubleshooting then logs and you are looking for 2 line together when hub last connected to internet and they will show your connection speed and noise margin or if netgear enter 192.168.0.1). Then run btspeedtester (MAC users may have problems). when first test completes then run diagnostic test and post the results ( do not reset the router).
which hub do you have?
are you connected directly via a filter to the NTE5 master or test socket or to somewhere else? Is the master the only phone socket in your home?
Have you tried the quiet line test? - dial 17070 option 2 - should hear nothing - best done with a corded phone. if cordless phone you may hear a 'dull hum' which is normal
check here to see if any exchnage problems http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/mso.php
http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/?
http://btbusiness.custhelp.com/app/service_status
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/15036
http://community.plus.net/exchange-information/
Someone may then be able to offer help/assistance/suggestions to your problem
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