[Dovecot] a new error message

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 20:11, John Ello wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:58:27AM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
> > The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in 
> > IMAP command UID: Too long argument.."
> 
> I used to get the same thing (some of my users have rather large
> mailboxes), and I found you can get around it by editing the line that
> begins '#define MAX_INBUF_SIZE ' in src/imap/client.c to a bigger
> number and recompiling. I'm not sure the purpose of the limit, or the
> complete effects of changing it, but it worked for me.

For now that's the only fix. I'm thinking of changing it so that you can
give a total command line limit. Default could be set to 100kB or so
then. RFC-2683 recommends 8000 chars though, so this could be considered
a client bug..