Re: New nnimap user having problems

[Bryan Ischo <bischo@plumbdesign.com>]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> 
> Bryan Ischo <bischo@plumbdesign.com> writes:
> 
> > This might be a very naive suggestion, because I have never looked at
> > the code of nnimap, but perhaps nnimap can get around emacs 28-bit
> > limitation by representing UIDs as two numbers instead of one?
> 
> It might, but Gnus wouldn't understand that.  So you'd have to modify
> most of Gnus too.  And that would take quite some effort, I think.
> 
> > I will also give Courier IMAP a try and see if it helps.  I will
> > report my success/failure to this group.
> 
> Please try it, I just read some source code for it and to my reading
> it should work.  This might have been changed in recent Courier
> versions, I dunno.

I installed it.  nnimap works!  So I guess it's a problem with
nnimap and large UIDs.  I will switch to Courier IMAP in the meantime ...

Also, you might want to make a note of this issue in the documentation,
as I am sure many people will run into this problem.

What do you think the ultimate solution will be?  nnimap can't be
said to "properly" implement the IMAP spec if it can't handle UIDs
greater than 2^28 (no fault to nnimap, of course, it's an emacs
limitation).

Thank you!
Bryan

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