The ISP that hosts my domain, including my mailboxes, makes 
SpamAssassin available, and I've enabled it for my domain.  Since 
then, I've been having an odd problem.

  NOTE:  The version of SA identifies itself as "2.01".  I see 
references on this list to 2.11, so I'm expecting that some of the 
answers will be of the form "Try to get them to update the version 
they're running."
  Fair enough, but (a) what if I can't persuade them, and (b) please 
don't suggest this unless you can point me to something that says 
that this is a known problem that was fixed between 2.01 and 
<latest>.  Okay?

  What seems to be happening is that *some* of my messages -- the 
number seems to have gone down since I told SA to stick its report in 
the headers, but it's still non-zero -- show up in pieces when my 
email program downloads them.  I get one piece with the headers, and 
sometimes a bit of the message text, and another piece that just has 
text with no headers.  Apparently, somthing in the POP message 
download is being misinterpreted as an end-of-message.
  My *hunch* is that this has something to do with the byte-stuffing 
required by the POP protocol, but I'm not clear on all the details.

  One thing I *can* confirm is that it's deterministic.  I've 
received multiple copies of the same text -- with different headers 
and with text prepended to the top of the message -- and had them 
split in exactly the same spot.
  I don't currently have a way to easily put a sniffer on the line 
and see exactly what's hapening at the POP protocol level.

  So:  Does anyone recognize this as a known problem?  Is there a fix 
or workaround?

Dave Gillett



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