On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 09:48:28PM +1000, damien dunlop wrote: > Hello, > > I have an exceptionally functional POP3 client (binary only) which has > worked perfectly with several other mail servers for many years. However > with Cyrus, the POP3 client doesn't pick up any mail. > > By looking at a tcpdump , it was found that the POP3 client sends > a space after the STAT command, which Cyrus treats as an error. > > Whilst RFC1939 does specify the STAT command takes no arguments, > it does seem arguable that a trailing space should not be treated > as an error by a receiver. For treating it as an error would violate the > general principal of "be strict in what you send, but generous in what you > accept". > > What are the chances of having Cyrus POP3 accept the trailing space > without error? > Really good since you have the source and can patch it to do what you need it to do. :)
Cheers, Ken
