Re: pop3-movemail trouble

["Erik Østlyngen" <eriko@ifbt.ntnu.no>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
> * "Erik Østlyngen" <eriko@ifbt.ntnu.no>  on Thu, 17 Jun 1999
> | But the response is the same. I still get the "Command line too long"
> | error. I think I will see if the system administrator here knows what
> | this error message means.
> 
> That is a good idea.  Or find out what POP server is being used (it is not
> particularly obvious from this end), so I can take a look at the code and
> see what it is doing.

I solved the problem.  In pop3.el, I changed the function
pop3-send-command:

(defun pop3-send-command (process command)
    (set-buffer (process-buffer process))
    (goto-char (point-max))
    (setq pop3-read-point (point))
    (goto-char (point-max))
    (process-send-string process command)
    (process-send-string process "\r\n")
    )

to:

(defun pop3-send-command (process command)
    (set-buffer (process-buffer process))
    (goto-char (point-max))
    (setq pop3-read-point (point))
    (goto-char (point-max))
    (process-send-string process (concat command "\r\n"))
    )

I don't know _why_ this works better. If it is any help, the pop
server answers "-ERR Command line too long" on very long commands,
e.g. "USER aaaaaaaaaaaaa...(1700 chars)"

-Erik Østlyngen