Re: IMAP capability for maximum APPEND message size?

[Mark Crispin <mrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Dave Cridland wrote:
> I have the strange suspicion that if anyone else had suggested this, you'd 
> have personally shot the proposal down by pointing out that maximum message 
> size depends on the mailbox driver and/or the filesystem the data resides on, 
> rather than the server as a whole, and thus it needs to be a per-mailbox 
> capability.

Actually, I was thinking more about a *server* limit rather than mailbox 
format imposed limits; and that this limit would be for administrative 
reasons rather than technical reasons.

IMAP already has a built in limit of 2^32 - 1.  On many systems, a file 
can't be larger than 2^31 - 1.  Cyrus imposes a limit of around 100MB, and 
I'm thinking about a similar limit in UW imapd.

-- Mark --

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