[imp] Fwd: c-client

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

----- Forwarded message from grp at med.uoc.gr -----
    Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:23:32 +0300
    From: "Grigorios G. Papazoglou" <grp at med.uoc.gr>
Reply-To: "Grigorios G. Papazoglou" <grp at med.uoc.gr>
 Subject: c-client
      To: Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>

>> I use IMP 3.1 and Horde 2.1, and have received a specific mailbox from a
>> user of mine which
>> cannot be displayed in IMP. A blank page is displayed instead. After
>> experimenting a bit, I came to the conclusion that the header of the
>> message is too long (has more than 160 recipients!). It seems that
>> some kind of limit has been exceeded. I have tried to remove some
>> recipients manually and the problem was solved. So I was wondering if
>> there is something I could increase to resolve this issue.

CH> It's a problem in c-client.

For your information, here is the reply I got from Mark Crispin, developer
of
IMAP, when I posted my problem in comp.mail.imap:

> There is no such limitation in c-client.  Pine, which also uses c-client,
> has no problem in displaying messages with that many recipients.

> My guess is that IMP incorrectly thinks that rfc822_header() is a suitable
> routine to display a message.  It isn't.  The application has to provide
> its own routine.

> The developer of IMP hasn't reported it as a c-client problem.  So this is
> just speculation.  If it is a c-client problem, it isn't going to be fixed
> unless the alleged problem is reported, along with details of why it is
> supposedly a c-client problem.



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-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck at horde.org>
"... It is not more light we need, but more warmth! We die of cold, not of
darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost." - Miguel de
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