Differences between RFC822.SIZE and 'normal' size

Hi,

if I would want to implement an IMAP server, how should I calculate the
size I'd report as RFC822.SIZE?

I thought that the RFC822 size would be the mail's size with CRLF
instead of LF line endings. But I'm confused by what I see reported by
e. g. Google IMAP server. If I download a mail and write it directly to
a file (with CRLF line endings), the file's size is different (a bit
larger) from the RFC822 size that the Google server is telling me.
Shouldn't both sizes be the same?

Regards
Timo
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Timo Kunze posted:
> I thought that the RFC822 size would be the mail's size with CRLF instead of
> LF line endings. But I'm confused by what I see reported by e. g. Google IMAP
> server. If I download a mail and write it directly to a file (with CRLF line
> endings), the file's size is different (a bit larger) from the RFC822 size
> that the Google server is telling me.

Google's server has some bugs.

> Shouldn't both sizes be the same?

Yes.

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