[imp] Excessive memory usage

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 24.09.08 22:08, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
> As for the c-client issue, this problem is presently being worked on  
> (a fully PHP stream-based IMAP client has nearly reached beta stage  
> and will be used in the forthcoming IMP 5).

Should we expect imp to use php socket connection insead of php imap
functions, or did i misunderstand that?

Could some memory-effective libraries, binary or PHP-bases, help there?
(e.g. effective MIME decoding/encoding)

>  The MIME handling is also  
> slated to be improved.  But the major issue in your case is that  
> nobody (and I mean nobody) should be sending attachments using  
> appledouble.  There is nothing gained by using appledouble that can't  
> be handled by a MIME multipart/mixed message.  I realize that you  
> can't control what mail programs people are using, but at some point  
> you *do* have to say "I'm sorry, we just can't handle that message."
> 
> And before you think this is an IMP specific issue, I have several  
> test e-mail messages that are 40 MB or so that when I view with  
> Thunderbird (on my Quad Core Q6600 w/ 3 GB of RAM), it absolutely  
> brings my machine to its knees.  This is an issue with the mail  
> transport architecture in general, not just Horde/IMP.

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