On 09 Apr 2015, at 06:52, Guillermo M. Narvaja <guillermo.narvaja@fierro.com.ar> wrote:
Since December 2014, clients using the Python poplib library (getmail in my case) started to limit the line length of RETR and other command responses sent from the server to 2048 bytes:
See https://bugs.python.org/issue16041 (Included at least in Python-2.7.9)
Dovecot doesn't have line split in the POP3 module, so Python fails to retrieve messages with long lines.
RFC 1939 says: " Responses in the POP3 consist of a status indicator and a keyword possibly followed by additional information. All responses are terminated by a CRLF pair. Responses may be up to 512 characters long, including the terminating CRLF. "
I think dovecot-pop3 should split it's output in lines of at least 512 characters. Or at least it should have a "pop3_max_line_length" setting (like "imap_max_line_length").
Um. This is talking about POP3 responses themselves - not about the actual email message body. Dovecot's POP3 reponses are short always I think. The message body is sent exactly as it was originally saved. Changing this could break things like PGP/SMIME signing and so on.