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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.