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[Frank Damgaard <frda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Bertelsen wrote:

> Er der nogen, der har oplevet at fetchmail ikke henter hele brevet fra
> en POP3 server?

Nej ikke med nyere fetchmail, hvilken version anvender du af fetchmail,
jeg anvender 5.0.5.

....

> #*********fetchmail: message 1 was not the expected length (1221 actual !=
> 1594
> expected)
....

driver.c fra fetchmail  har denne kommentar før fejlmedlingen:

                             * Check to see if the numbers matched?
                             *
                             * Yes, some servers foo this up horribly.
                             * All IMAP servers seem to get it right, and
                             * so does Eudora QPOP at least in 2.xx
                             * versions.
                             *
                             * Microsoft Exchange gets it completely
                             * wrong, reporting compressed rather than
                             * actual sizes (so the actual length of
                             * message is longer than the reported size).
                             * Another fine example of Microsoft brain death!
                             *
                             * Some older POP servers, like the old UCB
                             * POP server and the pre-QPOP QUALCOMM
                             * versions, report a longer size in the LIST
                             * response than actually gets shipped up.
                             * It's unclear what is going on here, as the
                             * QUALCOMM server (at least) seems to be
                             * reporting the on-disk size correctly.
                             */


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