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  • "Message to save shrank!"

    From Roderick@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 21 19:02:25 2021
    Why I get above message when using "s" command for saving locally
    what was in the imap server?

    Thanks
    Rodrigo

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  • From Roderick@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 21 19:34:57 2021
    I get the message when saving from imap.gmail.com, but not when
    saving from the newsreader.

    Is that a problem of the google imap server?

    R.

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  • From Eduardo Chappa@21:1/5 to Roderick on Sun Mar 21 14:17:54 2021
    On Sun, 21 Mar 2021, Roderick wrote:

    I get the message when saving from imap.gmail.com, but not when saving
    from the newsreader.

    Is that a problem of the google imap server?

    In IMAP every message has a size, and that size is sent to the client
    before it actually saves the message. However, Gmail does not compute that
    size correctly. It overestimates it, making the real message have a
    smaller size (hence the "shrank" part of the message.) Because of this, it might seem like some data was lost, when in reality, nothing bad happened.
    That is, you got the full message, nothing was lost.

    You can safely ignore such messages in the future. I do not know of any
    server that computes the size incorrectly and sends an incomplete message. Alpine is just giving you too much information that really amounts to
    nothing happened, and so think of it as a warning.

    I hope this helps.

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    Eduardo
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