>I find this implausible because the top four points would be the same
>if I were using the provider-provided software on Wintel - and anything
>that broke mail fetching for that crowd would be fixed approximately
>instantly.  (However, the provider's mailhost *does* appear to be
>trying to do PMTU-D; the packets I do see have DF set.)

	what kind of MSS value does GatesOS box uses?

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