Re: slow IMAP connection
Mark Crispin <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Tim Mooney wrote: >> Not until/unless you start dealing with single messages that are larger >> than 2GB. It will be a while before people start wanting to do that. :) > We're still not allowing individual messages larger than 25 MiB, so we're > safe for now... Yeah, even Gmail limits to 35MB. Even if the promise of universal 50Mbit/s broadband comes to pass, a 2GB Godzillagram would take a minimum of several minutes to transmit at (unobtainable) optimum performance with no other traffic. If SMTP is a suitable mechanism to transmit 2GB hunks of data, that begs the question of why we need bittorrent... ;) -- Mark -- http://panda.com/mrc Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw