That's just for historical reasons.

READ_BLOCK_SIZE is defined in db.h as 512KB, but you can set it to 512MB
or even bigger. Mysql supports 4GB for the type in question (longblob),
but check the docs if you're using postgresql.


tom wrote:
> What motivated dbmail to split the messages into message_blks?
> Is there some insane impracticality to storing a 1MB body as a single
> text field?
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