Tickets :: Comment on [#12001] Courier - max atom size too small

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Comment	> Why? i was trying to google it and it looks like i'm not able to set > this in Courier. I don't know why exactly IMP requested so many > messages but it happened automatically right after the login so i > assumed it's not my fault. > > Command line length limit in several IMAP servers (default values in bytes): > Courier: 16384 (looks like cannot be changed) > Dovecot: 65536 (can be set in config file) > Cyrus: probably 131072 (can be set in config file) > > From RFC 2683: > A client should limit the length of the command lines it generates to > approximately 1000 octets (including all quoted strings but not > including literals). If the client is unable to group things into > ranges so that the command line is within that length, it should > split the request into multiple commands. The client should use > literals instead of long quoted strings, in order to keep the command > length down. > > For its part, a server should allow for a command line of at least > 8000 octets. This provides plenty of leeway for accepting reasonable > length commands from clients. The server should send a BAD response > to a command that does not end within the server's maximum accepted > command length. >
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