hi monks,

i want to reconstruct mail form mime mail.put it in to imap server using Mail::IMAPClient module.

every thing works fine.
but when i append the mail in IMAP server using Mail::IMAPClient's append_string method, the size of the mail increases.

my code is something like this
$mimeent = generatemail(); # this func return mime entity.
print "length before: " . length($mimeent->as_string);
my $newid =$imap->append_string($folder, $mimeent->as_string, $flags, 
+$date);
print "length after: " .$imap->size($newid);

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the o/p is:
length before: 337119
length after: 342662

According to documentation of append_sting method:
Note that many servers will get really ticked off if you try to append a message that contains "bare newlines", which is the titillating term given to newlines that are not preceded by a carrage return. To protect against this, append_string will insert a carrage return before any newline that is "bare". If you don't like this behavior then you can avoid it by not passing naked newlines to append_string.

I checkd that the data contain the CRLF.

so i am not getting why the size of mail increse ..??
any hint ..??
thanks

In reply to mail size increase by luckypower

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