From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9924 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: POP3 and trailing newlines Date: 13 Feb 1997 19:38:30 +0100 Sender: grossjoh@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Message-ID: 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 1035149877 21360 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:37:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:37:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael.Huehne@Germany.EU.net, 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 LAA01590 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:33:18 -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 ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 20:14:55 +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 TAA08058; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:38:32 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by naunet.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id TAA05497; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:38:31 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.12/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9924 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9924 Hi all, maybe you remember that I posted about Michael having problems with his Gnus and POP3 and movemail. What happened was that mails that didn't end with a trailing newline had the succeeding message appended. Now we know why it happened, and I've got to say it's all Michael's fault. Here's the story. For some reason Michael didn't like movemail to produce Babyl format when reading from POP3. Therefore he changed it to use mbox format in those cases, too. And guess what, he didn't append an empty line to each message. Now he's changed movemail to append empty lines to each message, and he's a happy camper now. I would still like to see some reference that tells me about the mbox format. There was a posting of somebody quoting part of the qmail documentation, but somehow I think that the mbox format must be much older than qmail and therefore be described somewhere else. Just to be *totally* sure that mbox format requires trailing newlines for each mail ;-) kai -- The arms should be held in a natural and unaffected way and never be conspicuous. -- Revised Technique of Latin American Dancing