Morten Wartou writes: 

>> Morten Wartou writes:
>> > We have just discovered that the Courier POP3 daemon reads through each
> emailfile even though we use the Maildir-format. Is this the intention? Is
> there any way we can get around it?
>> This is required in order to fully comply with the POP3 protocol, which
>> calculates message sizes using CRLF newline terminators.
> 
> Oh... Heck. :) Do you know how is this messagesize returned to the client?

In STAT/RETR commands, I believe. 

> Is it really necessary? Any idea if switching to qmail's POP3 daemon would
> help?

You could, but then people will be bitching when their mail client begins to 
claim that they have downloaded 102% of the message, and it still keeps 
going. 

-- 
Sam 


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