message size changed, Pine won't save: solution?

This refers to Pine 4.64 on a Debian system. I use Pine as a sort of 
pop/imap checker, reading messages that I simply leave on the mail server 
for a time and deleting those I don't want. Periodically I download the 
undiscarded messages en masse to my machine for longer-term storage. Pine 
works for doing this, for the most part. But occasionally Pine tells me 
message sizes have changed (shrank), and it thus will not save the 
message: consequently the bulk save I'm trying to do fails. This is 
annoying. I assume the message size change raises some security flag and 
the program is trying to protect the host machine from a malicious e-mail? 
Well, I'm sure the messages I'm trying to download in bulk now are not 
malicious, and I'm not sure why the message size change occurs. That 
doesn't even especially interest me, but I would like to be able to 
download these messages to my computer from the server. Is there a way I 
can force to program to ignore the message size difference and download 
these messages anyway? I experimented with Mutt, btw, and it was able to 
download those messages just fine, not giving any sort of error or failure 
message related to the message size changing. Input will be appreciated.

Thanks, James
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