Rolf wrote:
> Try Nabble.

The official archive is piclist.com.  I looked checked there and this thread
looks just fine.  Personally I don't think other archives of the PICList
should be allowed to exist, but I also understand preventing them is
impossible.

> If you want I am sure that I, and a number of other people on
> Piclist would be very happy to help you diagnose where the issue is.

No need, I know exactly what is causing this.  Way back when I wrote the
POP3 server (this was long before such things were commercially available),
I had to declare a buffer size for lines.  The SMTP standard specified a
minimum required line width (1024 if I remember right) a server must handle,
but I could find no such mention in the POP3 standard even though I
specifically looked for it.  Since sending lines more than 80 characters
wide is not advisable, and more than 132 characters downright stupid, I
typed in 256 characters to leave a little room.  What I missed was that the
POP3 standard pointed back to some other standard (maybe SMTP) and
implicitly defined a line length that way.

So somewhere in the POP3 server software there is a string of data type
STRING_VAR256_T that should be STRING_VAR1024_T.  Making the actual change
is trivial of course, but I'd first have to locate the line, rebuild the
software, and update the mail server with the new software.  None of this is
hard, but it would still take a little time.  On a importance scale of 0-10,
this ranks about .001.  It's not likely to happen any time soon, especially
since I think long lines are silly anyway, and everything is working fine.

If you had been nice about it, I might have been willing to spend the 1/2
hour to fix this as a favor.  But since you've been a complete prick about
it, I intend to leave it this way until there is a reason *I* need it fixed.


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