The usual mailbox vs. maildir war has flared up on inet-access, and points
out a bug in qmail-pop3d. When you do a LIST command, it gives you the
size of each message. Pop3d just reports the file sizes, while it's clear
from the RFC that it's supposed to report the wire size of each message,
i.e., the size using cr/lf as a line terminator, so the sizes it reports
are too small.
I gather nobody's ever reported this as a bug, and I expect that the only
thing that uses the size is the "don't download bigger than size X" option
for which it's close enough, but it's still wrong.
I use courier-imap, and its POP daemon does get the sizes right,
presumably by reading the files and adding the number of \n characters.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
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