Re: bad (i.e. serious) mail problems

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>]

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I've gone back to determine where the problem might be.  It is not Gnus,
and it is not pop3.

* Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com>  on Sun, 28 Mar 1999
| [...]  If I understand that situation correctly (please tell me that I'm
| wrong) this is kind of by design. Or am I missing something here?

Your MTA is.

Gnus uses Content-Length headers, when they exist, to determine where to
split messages.  When they do not exist, it uses SMTP envelopes (what you
mistakenly call 'headers') just like Berkeley mail and every POP server
known to me to delimit messages.  If your MTA does not generate a
Content-Length header, it is required to escape lines that look like
envelopes.  All in all, Gnus has been very good at Doing the Right Thing
with properly formed messages.

Your MTA is not generating Content-Length headers, nor is it escaping lines
that look like envelopes.  In short, it is broken -- at least that is my
supposition.

I do not want to add your patch to pop3.el.  Message transports are not
allowed to modify message bodies in any way.  Less (or perhaps more,
depending on one's perspective) importantly, your patch is a workaround for
what appears to be a really badly broken MTA, one that I have no means (or
intention, sorry) of testing against.  I cannot support code that I cannot
(or for some reason will not) test against.  Sorry.
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