Re: The IMAP APPENDLIMIT Extension - version 04

Bron Gondwana <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imapext
Message-ID <1426745931.1257757.242376917.754628A7@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015, at 09:02 AM, Pete Maclean wrote:
>
> >1.  APPENDLIMIT value should be UINT32_MAX or UINT64_MAX ?
>
> UINT64_MAX

Most of the world is going with half that in new standards, for
compatibility with languages that offer a signed 64 bit numeric value
only (aka - java 7 and below).  It makes mapping the values through said
languages a lot easier, and 63 bits should be enough for anyone (or
something).

Alternatively, there's 53 bits, which is the maximum that javascript can
represent:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/307179/what-is-javascripts-highest-integer-value-that-a-number-can-go-to-without-losin

It's not going to matter in practice, because that's still fricking huge.

Bron.

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