Re: POP/fancy-split bug?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) was heard to say:
| Depending on how you fetch mail, the output of the fetching process
| may be a babyl file (default with movemail.c) or an mbox file (can
| happen with pop3.el but don't know if that always happens).  If it is
| an mbox file, a message is considered to start with a From_ line and
| ends with an empty line.

That does seem to be the problem, though it doesn't appear to be
related to Content-Length. Many of the corrupted messages
include a content-length that appears to be valid.

I took a quick peek at epop3mail and it would appear to have the
same problems. At least, I don't see anything that makes me
think it works around the "From " problem.

As you suggested, the external movemail program seems to create
BABYL boxes (and therefore wouldn't suffer from this bug?), but
using it means I don't get any feedback as messages are
downloaded. Since I can't seem to prevent very big messages from
being downloaded, that's unfortunate.

I'm just mortified. Does everyone just live with these problems?
Is POP3 not much used among the gnusers? (Clearly, I have to get
my other system working again :-)

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm

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