Re: Client calculating BODY.size.bytes prior to uploading to the server

body->size.bytes is the size of the first MIME body part, or the size of 
the entire message body for a single-part or non-MIME message.

The way that this is calculated by the server is by parsing the message. 
If you are uploading a message from the client, you are sending the 
message as a text string, and thus you must parse it yourself.

The c-client library has routines that will do this.

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Chance wrote:
> How can a client determine BODY.size.bytes prior to uploading the 
> message to the server? We are attempting to write a client such that the 
> client will know the size of BODY (in bytes) as it will appear on the 
> server. Once the message has been uploaded to the server, determining 
> the size is simple, i.e.:
>
> BODY * body;
> mail_fetchstructure(stream, msgno, &body)
> printf("%u", body->size.bytes);
>
> However, we have not been able to find any one value or combination of 
> values the client has access to locally that will equal size.bytes, as 
> demonstrated in the above code. How does the server determine the size 
> of the body? Is there any way a client can calculate that value locally, 
> so that the size on the server will be known before actually uploading 
> to the server?
>
> Thanks
>

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