I'm having trouble using the message length returned by exchange's POP3 connector (this length works correctly with every other pop3 server I've tried). I've searched the knowledge base and the archives of this list but haven't seen anything related to this problem. As a test, I manually sent a message via smtp: MAIL FROM:<test@test> RCPT TO:<me...> DATA test . message was sent and logging into exchange to retrieve: +OK Microsoft Exchange POP3 server version 5.5.2654.50 ready USER xxx PASS xxx LIST 1 +OK 1 264 . RETR 1 +OK Received: from WSD-HQRW021 ([192.168.5.12]) by bluefish.EmpriseCorporation.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2656.59) id T43NA6DZ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:30:19 -0000 test . Can anyone explain to me where exchange comes up with 264 bytes for that message? the most I can see is 205 (counting CRLF). In this case, the count was high, with other messages the count is low by a anywhere from 10-200 bytes (octets, whatever). Anyone else had this problem or know of a fix? Thanks Jacob