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Diffstat (limited to 'driver.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | driver.c | 29 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1749,9 +1749,34 @@ const struct method *proto; /* protocol method table */ } } - /* check to see if the numbers matched? */ + /* + * 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). + * + * 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. + */ if (msgsizes && msglen != msgsizes[num-1]) - error(0, 0, "size of message %d (%d) was not what was expected (%d)", num, msglen, msgsizes[num-1]); + { + if (outlevel >= O_VERBOSE) + error(0, 0, + "message %d was not the expected length (%d != %d)", + num, msglen, msgsizes[num-1]); + } /* end-of-message processing starts here */ |