Re: [fetchmail-devel] [PATCH] imap: introduce imapsearchmax parameter

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 23.04.2011 01:28, schrieb Andrea Righi:
> To retrieve new messages from a IMAP folder we use the IMAP SEARCH
> command, but we limit the messages processed by the query to 1000.
> This limit is hard-coded and it cannot be changed at runtime.
> 
> This value is not the best option in some cases, especially for large
> folders, because we need to submit a query each 1000 messages.
> 
> The following patch introduces a new option (imapsearchmax) that can be
> used to change this limit at runtime.

I wonder how much of that would survive the planned UID use in IMAP. :)