Fetch command response questions

[Timo Sirainen]

On 09/08/2015 02:58 PM, Vlad Pop wrote:
> Hello,
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> I have the following issue:
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> When using command 
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> FETCH 2 (BODY.PEEK[HEADER] UID INTERNALDATE FLAGS BODYSTRUCTURE)
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> on 2 different emails, we get 2 different response structure.
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> First response structure contains the BODYSTRUCTURE in a single line, while in the second response, the BODYSTRUCTURE is divided into multiple lines with "{61}" character at the end of each line.
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> The difference between those 2 emails is the name of some attachments. The attachment is an .eml file named "Re: [SR-Users] Keep-Alive in dialog "freeing a free fragment""
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> Is this a sort of bug or is it correct to receive the BODYSTRUCTURE on multiple lines?

IMAP server can decide whether it returns a "string" or
{123}\r\nliteral. Dovecot decides this in such a way that it sends the
minimum number of bytes to the IMAP client. So there is no bug in Dovecot.