some size calc error in pop3.el?

some size calc error in pop3.el?

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

So, I was idly looking at the Messages buffer(yep, slow day) and see
this

Opening TLS connection to `pop.gmail.com'...done
pop3 retrieved 0KB (0%) [2 times]
pop3 retrieved 1KB (3%)
pop3 retrieved 5KB (13%)
pop3 retrieved 9KB (22%)
...
pop3 retrieved 42KB (103%)
Wrote c:/Documents and Settings/s/Application Data/Mail/sas-l/2440
Wrote c:/Documents and Settings/s/Application Data/Mail/sas-l/2441


What's with 103%?  Shouldn't it be 100%?  Just asking....

 sivaram
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Re: some size calc error in pop3.el?

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:05:37 +0530, Sivaram wrote:

> pop3 retrieved 42KB (103%)

> What's with 103%?  Shouldn't it be 100%?  Just asking....

Maybe it was, ahem, enlargement spam?


  :-),

   Adam

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 "You have to photosynthesize"                                Adam Sjøgren
                                                         asjo@koldfront.dk

Re: some size calc error in pop3.el?

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

On Tue, Apr 24 2012,Adam Sjøgren wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:05:37 +0530, Sivaram wrote:
>
>> pop3 retrieved 42KB (103%)
>
>> What's with 103%?  Shouldn't it be 100%?  Just asking....
>
> Maybe it was, ahem, enlargement spam?
>

LOL, made me snort, good one that!

 sivaram
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Re: some size calc error in pop3.el?

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> What's with 103%?  Shouldn't it be 100%?  Just asking....

I found pop3.el counts the size of a process buffer that contains
not only mail data but also:

  A response the server answers to the STAT command that pop3.el
  issues, i.e., the number of mails and the total size.
plus
  The end mark, i.e., ".<CR><LF>".

So, the size pop3.el counts is always larger than the real data
size.  Since the difference is not so large, it is truncated into
less than 1% if mail data are large.  But the case the percentage
exceeds 100% will arise when receiving a small mail.  It might be
able to fix.