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On Mon, 14 May 2001, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> > so, is it possible to change the line number reports for the nnimap
> > backend to show the size of the raw article?
>
> No.  I believe it's impossible to get a line count of the unparsed message
> via IMAP.

Ahem, you said "size" -- if you meant the size in bytes rather than size
in number of lines, try the %c format specifier of `gnus-summary-line-format'.