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MBOX-Line: From colin at swaveit.com Wed Nov 23 16:41:48 2005
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: "Colin E. McDonald" <colin@swaveit.com>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:36 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP capability for maximum APPEND message size?
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Message-ID: <4105831243F6A441A82525D34E90513C1A8ECB@swave1.SquareWave.local>
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You should add a function that allows the attachment of fine lagers to
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e-mails.
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Now that would be cool
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Happy Thanksgiving IMAP!!!
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Colin
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-----Original Message-----
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From: imap-protocol-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu
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[mailto:imap-protocol-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of
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Mark Crispin
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Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 7:08 PM
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To: IMAP Protocol Interest List; IMAP Extensions WG
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP capability for maximum APPEND message
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size?
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I am considering the addition of a trivial new capability to IMAP that
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would advertise the maximum size of a message in APPEND (and probably
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also CATENATE). This has the same purpose as the SIZE capability in
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SMTP.
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Currently, the only message size limit in IMAP is 4294967295 (2^32 - 1)
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due to IMAP's use of unsigned 32-bit integers. Supporting that size is
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troublesome due to +1 overflow problems. Many implementations have much
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smaller limits, such as both for administrative and technical reasons
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(many filesystems encounter problems after 2^31 - 1).
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Rather than have this be a secret, I propose a capability called
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MAXAPPENDSIZE=nnn, where nnn is the size.
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I considered a somewhat more complex extension might advertise the
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server's command line length. I think that we should stick with RFC
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2683 section 3.2.1.5, since a client which is armed with more detail is
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much more likely to shoot itself in the foot.
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Comments?
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-- Mark --
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http://panda.com/mrc
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Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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