[Dovecot] IMAP error after login

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 20:22, Wouter Van Hemel wrote:
> If this is Mozilla's problem for not cutting up the command into smaller
> pieces - I believe the rfc limits the length of an IMAP command?

Not the IMAP4 RFC, but "IMAP4 Implementation recommandations".

>  - maybe a
> bugreport could be filed in the project's bugzilla. In the long run, that
> might be better than enlarging the buffer to a certain maximum amount of
> messages, which could prove to be a game without end.

Yeah. I've just been lazy :)

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217518

> How about other imap clients? Do they split up long commands?

I haven't noticed problems with other clients. That doesn't say that
they wouldn't of course.. I would guess it's mostly because of Mozilla's
bad messageset generation. If it sends 1,2,3,4 rather than 1:4 it gets
large easily.