On Tue, Sep 6, 2016, at 02:39, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > I forgot to mention the “why” question: We believe that software should > take its design seriously. Lots of software make a quick exception from > its general design, or its general UI, or ignore configuration > variables sometimes. Each such thing requires a good exception. > > Accepting a very large message necessarily makes aox use a lot of > memory. In actual fact copies copies for bad reasons and uses even > more, but I don’t care whether aox can handle a 20% bigger message. > That’s practically the same anyway. The big difference is somewhere > between memory-limit/10 and memory-limit*10. > > So after about one minute’s discussion, Abhijit and I decided to accept > messages up to about a seventh of the memory-limit, and I implemented > that. > > (I wonder whether gmail’s odd size limit comes from a similar > calculation. It’s 37.x megabytes IIRC, don’t remember the x). > > Arnt > >
Did this ever get merged? I can't seem to find any commits that match this description. I looked back through 2016, before this message was composed. -- Mark Felder [email protected]
