Re: Three kinds of IMAP extensions

------ Original Message ------
From: "Stu Brandt" <[email protected]>

>For client dev, I'd think the simplest is to look for "APPENDLIMIT=" 
>capability and steer users away from trying to do operations that would 
>require appending oversized messages -- "Your draft/note is too large 
>to save" or "Sorry, that message is too large to copy from AccountA to 
>AccountB. AccountB only accepts messages less than <appendlimit> 
>bytes."

I think the UX for this needs to be thought through a bit more.

I'm pretty sure if I had just been working on a huge email with 
attachments etc, and at the time I tried to save it it told me it was 
too big, I'd be pretty unhappy about it.  Substitute "your draft/note is 
too large to save" with "your provider sucks, get a new one".

Is the problem with me, or is the problem with the person that set the 
(IMO) too-small limit?  And what are they really trying to achieve?  
Keep my disk-usage down?  I could save a million tiny messages but not 
one big one?  It doesn't make much sense to me to limit this.

Adrien


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>Perhaps I'm oversimplifying, though :)
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