Is the length of a message included in header information or is it applied on-the-fly by the pop server?
The reason I ask is this:
I have recently been getting inboxes jammed with mail message(s) that has an octet length stated after a ‘retr’ command of say 18000 and when I’ve used good old telnet and logged the output comes to something like ~16000 (dont start thinking this has something to do with a 16kB buffer… hmmm maybe but anyway).
So when it reaches this mysterious premature end of data of course the server sits there waiting for the mythical other 2kb to appear.
I have to then use the http mail client to filter by trial and error until I get the offending ‘corrupt’ email isolated.
I wouldn’t mind this but I’m now having to do this quite regularly and BT won’t investigate so I’m having to do some research.