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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

  > POP is not allowed to modify message bodies in any way (modulo properly
  > escaped and then de-escaped 'dot lines').  The delivery agent on the mail
  > host must either escape the envelope-like lines or generate a
  > Content-Length header if one does not exist.

Why on earth should the delivery agent on the mail host do that?  It
is not needed by SMTP, it is not needed by POP3, it is *only* needed
by mbox format.  For all pop3-movemail knows, no mbox format has ever
been involved.  So pop3-movemail must escape From_ lines or add the
Content-Length header.

kai
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