Re: [Imap-protocol] Working around the evils of LITERAL+

Michael M Slusarz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
Message-ID <20130327140405.Horde.xVBCOb0icPn4imuUgPQweQ2@bigworm.curecanti.org>
Quoting Alexey Melnikov <[email protected]>:

> On 26 Mar 2013, at 23:03, Brandon Long <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> And that limit is advertised via EHLO at SMTP time, but there's no  
>> mechanism for doing that with IMAP.
>
> Let's standardize a way to advertise such limit. I might have use  
> for it as well.

Throwing out another idea: What about updating LITERAL+ and explicitly  
excluding its usage with APPEND.  IMAP already has a mechanism for  
rejecting overly large appends - NO response to APPEND command  
continuation request - so would be nice to leverage this feature  
instead of adding a new one.

Regardless... it probably makes sense for any server to return the  
LIMIT response code in this situation since this is a textbook example  
of an "operation [that] ran up against an implementation limit of some  
kind".

michael

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