Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

>>>>> Per Abrahamsen writes:

  Per> If I read these correct, you have a seriously broken POP server.

See Bernard's mail: I was all wrong, of course.

As I see it now, the following is what happens:

The POP3 server spits out a message at a time.  The last line of some
messages is empty, or some others it is non-empty.  movemail concats
all messages.  This results in a file that contains several messages,
one after the other, and in some cases, a message begins with
"\r\n\r\nFrom " (twice CRLF) whereas in other cases, a message begins
with "\r\nFrom " (just one CRLF).  Gnus tries to read this file and
does something strange when it sees the just-one-CRLF case.

I do not know whether a POP3 server should be required to tack on an
extra CRLF to the end of each message, thereby ensuring the twice-CRLF
case always, or whether movemail should tack on the extra CRLF, or
whether Gnus should be taught to do without the extra CRLF.

But somehow I think that the POP3 server is *not* the problem here.

kai
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