From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines
Date: 04 Feb 1997 14:10:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rj68084t05.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of 04 Feb 1997 13:05:14 +0100
Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> The POP3 server spits out mails separated by "\nFrom " but not
> "\n\nFrom ". If the standard sez one "\n" is enough then Gnus should
> grok that, too, shouldn't it?
As far as I can see from RFC 1939 and movemail.c:
A pop server always spit out a single message a time, so it doesn't
have any use for unix mbox format. In fact, it would be a violation
of the protocol if a messages began with `From '. It may contain as
many "From " lines as wants, with or without a preceding empty line.
They are still part of a single message.
Movemail creates its output in BABYL format, and furthermore quotes
all "From " lines it sees just to be sure.
If I read these correct, you have a seriously broken POP server.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-02-04 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-03 15:24 Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-03 16:36 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-03 20:01 ` visigoth
1997-02-04 0:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-04 12:05 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-04 13:03 ` Bernard.Steiner
1997-02-04 13:10 ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
1997-02-04 13:43 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-04 14:41 ` Bernard.Steiner
1997-02-04 15:23 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-04 15:31 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-04 10:14 ` dave edmondson
1997-02-04 14:52 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-05 22:40 ` Michael Huehne
1997-02-05 10:47 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-02-08 9:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-08 11:50 ` visigoth
1997-02-08 12:32 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-08 16:08 ` Frank D. Cringle
1997-02-08 19:11 ` Steven L Baur
1997-02-09 2:58 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-09 9:34 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-09 14:56 ` Randal Schwartz
1997-02-09 15:32 ` mbox quoting (was: Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines) Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-10 14:52 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-10 15:30 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-10 15:45 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1997-02-11 9:25 ` Greg Stark
1997-02-11 11:36 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 12:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-11 13:44 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 18:43 ` Sudish Joseph
1997-02-12 7:35 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-12 12:52 ` Randal Schwartz
1997-02-12 8:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-11 12:57 ` Randal Schwartz
1997-02-11 13:28 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 13:33 ` Randal Schwartz
1997-02-11 14:16 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 16:13 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-12 7:28 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-02-11 15:00 ` Rich Pieri
1997-02-09 16:19 ` Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines Rich Pieri
1997-02-09 22:21 ` Mark Eichin
1997-02-10 4:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-10 4:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-10 8:05 ` visigoth
1997-02-11 12:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-03 23:48 St. Suika Fenderson Roberts
1997-02-04 1:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-02-04 3:22 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
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