MBOX-Line: From dave at cridland.net  Fri Mar 30 02:38:18 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:39 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] LITERAL+ and errors
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On Fri Mar 30 07:34:20 2007, Dan Karp wrote:
> When a client uses LITERAL+ and specifies a literal length larger 
> than the server is prepared to accept, what options does the server 
> have?  Anything other than dropping the connection or reading and 
> discarding the entire literal?

Those are your options. Most people tend toward killing the 
connection for large literals, especially outside of an APPEND 
command.

Dave.
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