[Spambayes] pop3proxy HEADER_EXAMPLE and HEADER_FORMAT

[Tim Stone - Four Stones Expressions]

3/11/2003 9:44:15 PM, "Meyer, Tony" <T.A.Meyer at massey.ac.nz> wrote:

>An issue that Tony Lownds brought up is that pop3proxy currently has 
HEADER_EXAMPLE, which is used in response to a pop3 STAT or LIST command to 
calculate the new size of the message, in case the mailer needs to know, and 
asks.
>
>With the new headers, this is a problem.  Level and MailId are easy enough, 
but evidence (i.e. hammie_debug) could be just about any size.
>
>What's the collective answer?  I do recall from previous messages that Richie 
was originally much more careful about making things the right size ("No " and 
"Yes", for example), and then IIRC decided to give this up and fix it if 
anyone broke.

I was noticing this very thing today as I started preparing to do that header 
module thing.  This is a problem, because AFAIK mailers expect the pop3proxy 
to give them a buffer size when they do a list, or stat.  One idea here is to 
add the headers willy-nilly, then determine the length of the resulting header 
text.  Another would be to place an upper boundary on how much text we will 
add to the headers, report a header that size, and make sure we never exceed 
that size.  If we do, we could drop headers in some sort of priority order 
until we're under the limit.  I like the first idea better, but I'm not sure 
it works with STAT.  You *could* do a test with all those mailers you have 
installed and see if any of them *use* stat...  If you set options.verbose = 
True, pop3proxy produces a log of all the interactions it proxys...


>Along similar lines, HEADER_FORMAT used to define the header format, which is 
now hard coded.  Should the decision be to wipe HEADER_FORMAT out, or to have 
a HEADER_FORMAT for each header?  (This could go into the header module that 
TimS is building).  It stoped being used at r1.36, without any comments in the 
checkin about why (it was a big checkin, though).

I don't see that there's any value to this field...


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