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Andrzej Rusin commented on IMAP-374:
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Eric,

I noticed that the issue is in fact invalid (and said it in the previous 
comment), and mentioned the SSL only to follow up.

In fact I think it's purely a client issue.

By the way, after several restarts the client stopped issuing that huge 
request. That also suggests a client issue.

Sorry if I introduced any confusion. Probably I should not jump to conclusions 
so quickly, but at that time I had the logs from the client that convinced me 
it may be a server problem.

Andrzej
                
> Client command line length limit is problematic
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: IMAP-374
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMAP-374
>             Project: James Imap
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Protocol
>            Reporter: Andrzej Rusin
>            Assignee: Eric Charles
>
> I believe (based on some observations) that:
> A) maximum client command line length in James IMAP is 8192 as defined in 
> org.apache.james.protocols.netty.AbstractChannelPipelineFactory.MAX_LINE_LENGTH.
> B) I do not think that IMAP RFC limits the line length, at least I did not 
> find any reference of that.
> C) James IMAP does not seem to reply with BAD when it sees a too long line.
> D) Some clients send quite long lines (I just saw one about 23000 characters 
> and sky is the limit) and they probably expect some answer, hanging 
> indefinitely.
> So:
> 1. If B is true, then we should not practically really limit in A; or rather 
> the limit should be really high. And looks like 640K is not enough for 
> everyone anymore ;)
> 2. Probably C should be fixed.

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