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Christopher K Davis <ckd@ckdhr.com> writes:

  > RFC 822 format does not include message separators.  Therefore, any
  > message returned by the RETR command containing a message separator is
  > not in compliance with RFC 822, and therefore violates the POP spec;
  > messages *not* containing a separator, which means their first line will
  > be an RFC 822 header, are *in compliance with the POP specification*.

RFC 821 has something to say on the format of message bodies.  It says
a message body is an arbitrary sequence of ASCII characters, except
that CRLF is forbidden (CR alone or LF alone are allowed, though).  As
far as I understand, the sequence <LF> F r o m <SPC> is not forbidden
according to this rule.

The POP3 RFC explicitly says that the output of a RETR command is one
message.  Thus, it cannot contain a message separator -- it is just
one message, after all.

kai
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