Subject: "Message to save shrank!" (Netscape interaction)

From: Warren Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:53:07 -0800

One of our users was surprised to see this warning when
he tried to save a message to another folder:

    [Message to save shrank!  (#1: 1473 --> 1472)]

It turns out that he's also been using Netscape on a PC
to read his mail, for various reasons that seem good to him.
Netscape is adding headers like this to the messages it reads:

    X-Mozilla-Status: 8001

What isn't obvious (at least from Pine) is that Netscape is
adding a carriage return to the end of the header, DOS style.
That's the missing character that causes the message to shrink.

I guess it's not surprising that moving mail folders back
and forth between Windows and Unix would cause confusion.
On the other hand, Pine 3.95 doesn't seem to be bothered.
Should Pine 4.0x be able to ignore carraige returns too?

--
Warren Jones
Fluke Corporation

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