From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28724 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Norman Walsh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: POP/fancy-split bug? Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:49:44 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <4191-Tue11Jan2000124944-0500-ndw@nwalsh.com> References: <8669-Tue11Jan2000085501-0500-ndw@nwalsh.com> Reply-To: Norman Walsh NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165520 31328 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:58:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:58:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF8FD051E for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:51:58 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB01707; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:51:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:51:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14191 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:51:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from nexus.berkshire.net (nexus.berkshire.net [206.72.196.10]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56FF1D051E for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:49:53 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from nwalshpc.berkshire.net (nwalshpc.nwalsh.com [140.186.114.234]) by nexus.berkshire.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA10964 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:49:37 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: emacs 20.4.1 (via feedmail 7 I) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-URL: http://nwalsh.com/ X-Millennium: T-minus 50 weeks, 5 days, 11 hours, 15 minutes, 3 seconds In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "11 Jan 2000 16:35:09 +0100" Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28724 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28724 / Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) was heard to sa= y: | 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 --=20 Norman Walsh | It is necessary to try to surpass http://nwalsh.com/ | oneself always; this occupation | ought to last as long as | life.--Christina, Queen of Sweden