Subject: Re: Shrinking Message

From: Bobby Sukumar <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:45:03 -0800

Ha, I hit this problem yesterday, but I have been unable to reproduce
it since, on my Sparc 10. I use procmail to sort incoming mail into folders,
but it can't be related to that.

Maybe it's something to do with lockfile though. Do you happen to use
procmail ?

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Bobby

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On 11 Jan 1996, Matt McLean wrote:

| While in pine, I tried to save a message from inbox to a previously
| created folder.  Pine returned the message, "[Message to save shrank!
| (#1:1563 --> 1554)]" and did not transfer my mail to the appropriate
| folder.  The number 1563 referred to the size of the original email.
| 
| Has anyone seen a message like this before?  This is pine 3.91 on a SUN
| Sparc20 with 4.1.4.  Any ideas why this would happen?
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From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 14:20:45 +0000

On 11 Jan 1996, Matt McLean wrote:

> While in pine, I tried to save a message from inbox to a previously
> created folder.  Pine returned the message, "[Message to save shrank!
> (#1:1563 --> 1554)]" and did not transfer my mail to the appropriate
> folder.  The number 1563 referred to the size of the original email.
> 
> Has anyone seen a message like this before?  This is pine 3.91 on a SUN
> Sparc20 with 4.1.4.  Any ideas why this would happen?

Yes, once. One of my users, who uses WinPine client with a Sun4 server, 
experienced this. The effect was completely repeatable (so timing effects 
did not apply). I could see no message specific peculiarities.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:04:04 +0000 (GMT)

As I recall this is due to a small problem in the C-Client code 
distributed with Pine 3.91.  The problem arises because the problem 
message includes crom CR-LF pairs.  Pine sees the total number of 
characters (including LF's), tries to save the message, but omits the 
LF's.  This causes the total message size to shrink (LF's stripped out) 
and is detected by Pine's sanity checking code.

The solution is to obtain and use the later IMAP kit from 
ftp.cac.wachington.edu.  (I think it's imap-3.6beta? ... can't remember, 
but it should be obvious).  This includes new C-cline and imapd code 
which (I think!) cures the problem.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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