With a judicious bit of UTSL, that count seems to be the total number of octets in the reply. This information comes from any user of _getlongresp(), which actually returns a tuple (resp, list, octets). These methods would be: list retr top uidl
I'd consider it a doc bug too. If you feel comfortable doing it, dive in and improve the documentation of poplib. Submitting a patch to the patch tracker on sf.net/projects/python is probably the best way to do this, if you have the necessary knowledge of cvs to produce a patch. Jeff
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