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Hello. There are two types of IMAP clients. Those that believe phony
RFC822.SIZEs, and those that aren't so easily suckered.

Sure hope gnus is in the latter group.
$ zgrep -l RFC822.SIZE *
imap.el.gz
nnimap.el.gz
but I didn't check further, as I use getmail myself.

Full tale of woe is in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464016
"clients will truncate on bad multipart/digest RFC822.SIZE"