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
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
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:
Length limits has actually been discussed and rejected; noone had a proposal
that solved more problems than it introduced.
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