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

Pete Maclean <[email protected]>
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If we have to submit to per-mailbox limits then another idea would be 
to add a MAXAPPENDSIZE item to the STATUS command.  This could 
perhaps be a 64-bit value like HIGHESTMODSEQ.  And it could be set to 
zero to indicate that the mailbox cannot accept APPENDs at all.

Pete Maclean

At 10:30 PM 3/27/2013, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

>On 2013-03-27, at 3:27 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
> > So .. maybe a per-mailbox limit isn't that useful. I was mainly 
> thinking about different users having different limits, causing 
> shared mailboxes to have different limits. Or maybe some other 
> special mailboxes with special rules.
>
>Why not require the server to issue a [LITERALPLUSSIZE nnn] whenever 
>the server's state changes the value it's prepared to deal 
>with.  That makes it agnostic to any existing and future extensions.
>
>You could then set limits by user, by folder, by user+folder, 
>etc.  Lots of flexibility, and it never has to be updated for 
>follow-on capabilities.  (I run in fear of the 64-bit proposal.)
>
>--lyndon
>
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