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.


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