On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:24:42AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 1.2.2007, at 3.39, Nate wrote:
The reason why the messages are read in the first place is because
the message sizes need to be returned so that linefeeds are counted
in CR+LF format, while they're typically stored in LF-only format. So
if Dovecot just stat()ed the file and returned that as the message's
size, it would be violating the POP3 spec. tpop3d seems to be doing
that.
Wouldn't it make sense to add the line count field to the index file? That would solve the CR+LF issue.
And I have another idea, which some time ago saved my butt with Courier: add a line count L=?? maildir flag, which would make messages look like:
-rw------- 1 root root 4811 Feb 9 2006 1138386088.22293_0.mail1,S=4811,L=104
(we had to patch Courier to use that)
This flag could be set by LDA or when generating the index. Wouldn't this solve the issue in an elegant way?
-- Jan Srzednicki w@expro.pl