From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9798 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines Date: 04 Feb 1997 14:43:47 +0100 Sender: grossjoh@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.100) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149768 20613 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:36:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:36:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no, Bernard.Steiner@Germany.EU.net Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA12004 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 05:53:14 -0800 Original-Received: from waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 14:43:52 +0100 Original-Received: from naunet.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (naunet.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.111]) by waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id OAA14662; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 14:43:49 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by naunet.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id OAA28520; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 14:43:48 +0100 Original-To: Per Abrahamsen In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of 04 Feb 1997 14:10:02 +0100 Original-Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.10/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9798 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9798 >>>>> 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 -- My heart is down, my head is turning around; I had to leave a little girl in Kingston town. -- Harry Belafonte