From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22184 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: bad (i.e. serious) mail problems Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:47:27 -0500 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <99Mar31.104539est.13958-2@gateway.intersys.com> References: <99Mar30.101746est.13914-3@gateway.intersys.com> <99Mar31.101332est.13973-2@gateway.intersys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160150 26818 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:29:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:29:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA12113 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:49:55 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAB00138; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:49:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:49:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA28126 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:49:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from intersys.com (gateway.intersys.com [198.133.74.253]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA12099 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:49:17 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by gateway.intersys.com id <13958-2>; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:45:39 -0500 Original-To: "(ding)" X-Attribution: Rat In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "31 Mar 1999 17:32:10 +0200" Original-Lines: 43 User-Agent: Gnus/5.07008 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.80) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22184 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22184 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 * Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE on Wed, 31 Mar 1999 | pop3-movemail writes this message to its output file as-is. Agreed. This is an aspect of a later RFC (padding does not exist in 'stock' POP3). However, not un-escaping the padding is non-destructive. | As the output file (~/.crashbox) is mbox format, the From_ line in the | middle will be interpreted as a beginning-of-message by whatever is | reading the output file of pop3-movemail. | So, pop3-movemail needs to be fixed. For the umpteenth time, SMTP requires that a Content-Length header be generated if envelope-like lines in the message body are not escaped. The escaping, if it is required, should be performed long before pop3-movemail is ever invoked. | Btw, the mbox format says that a message should be terminated by an | empty line. But the output of the RETR command is not required to end | in an empty line. Thus, pop3-movemail should add the empty line (if | it is writing mbox format). Because pop3-clean-region transforms the POP termination sequence into a blank line, making it unnecessary to add one. It used to remove the terminator entirely, but that caused problems with certain stupid POP servers that have a penchant for stripping trailing whitespace from messages. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v0.9.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE3AkOPgl+vIlSVSNkRAlvXAJ455WiV9RGY/5R6HpRtHDiWIJbTbwCg8/5j F33fESbKxT+7AxMEi55rUH8= =xEzW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Rat \ If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ away immediately. Seek shelter and cover PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ head.