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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> Here is a patch against pop3 1.3q to bring it to 1.3r.  It should
> generate a Content-Length header with the same value as the Lines header
> Gnus creates (which is converted to X-Content-Length by Gnus somewhere
> along the line).  This should hopefully prevent unescaped envelopes from
> being a problem.
> 
> Note: it uses `count-lines-buffer' from simple.el, which might not be
> part of FSF Emacs (it is part of XEmacs).  If this is the case, does FSF
> Emacs have a more or less equivalently useful function, or am I going to
> have to roll my own?

Ummmm... content-length is supposed to be the byte count, is it not?

-Bill P.