How to limit Apple Mail (desktop)?

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Tue Oct 31 14:52:07 EET 2017



On 31.10.2017 14:44, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
>> What's in your mind as solution?
> When dovecot receives many full body downloads from a client, it could respond by sending the header only.
This sounds rather dangerous. Client is expecting full body download,
not headers.

Aki

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> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:29 AM, <ml+dovecot at moritz.augsburger.name> wrote:
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>> Hi, On 30.10.2017 10:38, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > We need a server-side solution to the problem. more powerfull hardware? What's in your mind as solution? Don't tell the client about the mails -> user will miss old mails. Stop him from fetching body with a temporary "UNAVAILABLE" failure? -> Don't know how apple mail will react, but probably present some error to the user for every mail. The only possibility that would make sense to me is some form of rate limiting to reduce the server load. Give them some tens of Megabytes w/o any restriction, then reduce. Regards Moritz



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