On 31.10.2017 14:44, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
>> What's in your mind as solution?
> When dovecot receives many full body downloads from a client, it could 
> respond by sending the header only.
This sounds rather dangerous. Client is expecting full body download,
not headers.

Aki

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> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:29 AM, <ml+dove...@moritz.augsburger.name> wrote:
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>> Hi, On 30.10.2017 10:38, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > We need a server-side 
>> solution to the problem. more powerfull hardware? What's in your mind as 
>> solution? Don't tell the client about the mails -> user will miss old mails. 
>> Stop him from fetching body with a temporary "UNAVAILABLE" failure? -> Don't 
>> know how apple mail will react, but probably present some error to the user 
>> for every mail. The only possibility that would make sense to me is some 
>> form of rate limiting to reduce the server load. Give them some tens of 
>> Megabytes w/o any restriction, then reduce. Regards Moritz

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