Arnt Gulbrandsen added the comment:
Length limits has actually been discussed and rejected; noone had a proposal
that solved more problems than it introduced.
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Arnt Gulbrandsen added the comment:
You're entirely right. I should've reread 2683 too (a decade has passed since I
read that).
The danger with accepting the unlimited line length is that batch scripts might
accept an infinitely large batch. Which is a matter of python culture, real
Arnt Gulbrandsen added the comment:
The RFC in question is 2683, which isn't a standard, it's just advice.
What gmail breaks is the expectation that mailboxes and seach results are
smallish. If you run a python script on gmail and it runs a search, the result
can be a great deal b
New submission from Arnt Gulbrandsen:
http://stackoverflow.com/q/28923997 and various other SO questions point out
that imaplib's _MAXLINE value is a bit behind the times. Fine for 1997, when
people had 10MB mailbox quotas, not so fine for the age of gmail.
I'm tired of seeing those
