> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:46:40 +0200
> From: Heimo Claasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Rather weird POP3 server property
>
[I'm reading the digest version of the list offline, so someone might
have already answered this.]
> As long as I use it now (several weeks) the Netpas script to fetch mail
> headers only (and delete spam at the POP3 server) works quite pretty.
>
> I've just set up a slightly improved version at the URL:
> ==> www.inti.be/hammer/playnet/autopop4.zip
>
> One among my various e-ccounts, however, has a really strange behaviour:
>
> After a first log-on, with getting the "list" of stored mails there and
> doing this and that, the volumes of the (remaining) mail items are
> increased each by 10 bytes. After a second/consecutive logon to that
> server, _OR_ after a time lapse (difficult to find out how long), yet
> another volume increase of 1 byte is done there for those mail items
> which had been left at the server. _Sometimes_, apparently after a long
> enough intervall between log-ons, 11 bytes have been added to the volume
> of each remaining item. Only from a third (or even fourth) logon on will
> mails left at the server be shown with a stable indication of their
> volume in the "list" of mails stored.
>
> Not one of the other POP3 servers I can check (at five different hosts)
> does ever show anything like that.
>
> Would anyone have an explanation ? (The ISP in question doesn't.)
>
Possibly a "Status:" header line? This is usually added by the mail
reader program to distinguish new from old and read from unread
messages. To verify this, you need to look at the raw POP3 output
before your mail reader sees it.
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