On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 11:45:10PM -0700, @lbutlr wrote:
On Nov 27, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Darac Marjal <[email protected]> wrote:
Firstly, that page states that UIDs should be 32-bit integers. If so,
why do there appear to be UIDs greater than 3 billion in the mailbox?
Because 32 bits hold 4 billion decimal?
2^32 = 4,294,967,296
Ah, yes. It's a bug in claws-mail then. It *IS* storing the UID in an
unsigned int, but then comparing it to G_MAXINT which is the signed
maximum.
Sorry for the noise.
(this is why FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit).
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