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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/imaplib.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/imaplib.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/imaplib.py b/Lib/imaplib.py index 49ee39def13..a218ab0716e 100644 --- a/Lib/imaplib.py +++ b/Lib/imaplib.py @@ -45,11 +45,12 @@ AllowedVersions = ('IMAP4REV1', 'IMAP4') # Most recent first # Maximal line length when calling readline(). This is to prevent # reading arbitrary length lines. RFC 3501 and 2060 (IMAP 4rev1) -# don't specify a line length. RFC 2683 however suggests limiting client -# command lines to 1000 octets and server command lines to 8000 octets. -# We have selected 10000 for some extra margin and since that is supposedly -# also what UW and Panda IMAP does. -_MAXLINE = 10000 +# don't specify a line length. RFC 2683 suggests limiting client +# command lines to 1000 octets and that servers should be prepared +# to accept command lines up to 8000 octets, so we used to use 10K here. +# In the modern world (eg: gmail) the response to, for example, a +# search command can be quite large, so we now use 1M. +_MAXLINE = 1000000 # Commands |