Oops, Jerzy Balamut, the solid pop3 author pointed out that the pop3 protocol dosn't count bytes stuffed line beginings in the size returned by the LIST and STAT commands. I checked the RFC's, and he's right.

It's not that bad actually, cos i've been thinking about writing a script that takes a mail on stdin and writes it into a maildir with the right line endings etc.

It's needed for MTA's that arn't as flexable as exim, and i can now encode the file size without byte stuffed line beginings in the filename (a bit of a hack, but not a problem).