Re: Port numbers in .authinfo lost with upgrade to 0.3.30/0.3.31

[jrp@informix.com (Joshua R. Poulson)]

radford@robby.caltech.edu (Jim Radford) writes:
> > * 1 FETCH (UID 205794373)
> > A6 UID FETCH -62641083 (UID RFC822.HEADER RFC822.SIZE BODY)

> For some reason your server wants to call the first message in your
> box number 205794373.  This is perfectly legal, but we can't deal with
> it because emacs' integers are only 28 bit.

Argh!

> I don't know if this is an option for you, but xemacs (current betas)
> can be compiled with --minimal-tag-bits to get 31 bit integers.

I'm using Emacs 20.3 for Windows NT. I'm not sure of that option, but
I'll copy THAT mailing list as well.

> We could use some generic big-integer routines, but it has always been
> low on the priority list since we hadn't (until now) seen a server
> that had UIDs so big.

The server is Imail, from Ipswitch, version 3.something. I have little
control over it, as it is my ISP's.