Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines

[Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@PrescientTech.com>]

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>>>>> "KG" == Kai Grossjohann
>>>>> <grossjohann@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

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

The "end of message" marker that the POP3 server spits out is
"\r\n.\r\n".  The first "\r\n" pair will start on a new line (it will
not be attached to the end of the last line of the message), and will be
written out to the local mail file; the ".\r\n" will not be written.
Then the next message is tacked on after that:

======
...
A Stone & Webster Company                 | and cover head.
I speak for myself, not PTI or SWEC       | 
\r\n
- From ...
...
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KG> But somehow I think that the POP3 server is *not* the problem here.

I am inclined to agree; it is the delivery agent this guy is using that
is the problem.  It is failing to create proper delimiters in the system
mailbox, resulting in the POP server seeing the entire mailbox as a
single message.

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