From: Avery Pennarun on
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:30 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 12:18 -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, why fall back to one chunk at a time? �It seems to
>> me that IMAP should be able to still support multiple outstanding
>> requests in that case, but you'd just get errors on the latter chunks.
>>
>> It is just that there was no point optimizing the workaround case?
>
> There wasn't a lot of point in optimising it.

Say no more :)

I code on some IMAP clients occasionally and I just wanted to make
sure I wasn't missing something important.

Thanks!

Avery
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From: viresh kumar on
On 8/11/2010 9:16 PM, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Exchange 2010 does not handle IMAP "chunking" (partial message transfer)
> correctly. Any request after about 1 megabyte of total message size
> will fail.
>
> Thunderbird uses this "chunking" feature to give you a status update
> while downloading large messages. The IMAP statements are of this type:
> 11 UID fetch 244477 (UID RFC822.SIZE BODY[]<20480.12288>)
>
> When the 20480 is larger than 1MB Exchange "claims" there is no more.
> Sigh....
>
> Fortunately you can disable this feature. To disable this in
> Thunderbird you can go to the Advanced configuration and disable the
> following feature, by setting it to false:
> mail.server.default.fetch_by_chunks
Jeffrey,

I tried this but problem is still there.

viresh.
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