[Imap-protocol] LITERAL+ and errors

[Dave Cridland]

On Fri Mar 30 07:34:20 2007, Dan Karp wrote:
> When a client uses LITERAL+ and specifies a literal length larger 
> than the server is prepared to accept, what options does the server 
> have?  Anything other than dropping the connection or reading and 
> discarding the entire literal?

Those are your options. Most people tend toward killing the 
connection for large literals, especially outside of an APPEND 
command.

Dave.
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