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

Timo Sirainen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.general
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On 26.3.2013, at 23.26, Brandon Long <[email protected]> wrote:

> So, if a user attempted to draft a message larger than our limit (35MB), with LITERAL+, the client would just issue an APPEND with two large a message.  Our options were to just eat the data and say NO afterwards (great waste of bandwidth) or drop the connection.  Some clients would just keep retrying to do the APPEND until they exhausted the upload bandwidth quota, or just cost the user a lot of money if they happened to be on a line that charged.

Did you consider blocking the client's IP for n minutes and sending the user an email explaining the issue and asking to reset the client?

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