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From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] pop3: support `?limit=$NUM' parameter in mailbox name
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:46:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230918-barrel-unhearing-b63869@meerkat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230915204110.M732304@dcvr>

On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 08:41:10PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Thanks, pushed the series as
> a37e3ab3740c24c3 (pop3: limit default mailbox to 1K messages, 2023-09-14)
> 392d251f97d46579 (pop3: support `?limit=$NUM' parameter in mailbox name, 2023-09-12)

Oh, I did notice what is probably unintentional behaviour -- passing
?limit=XXX affects all mailbox access, not just the initial retrieval.

E.g. if I configured pop3 with ?limit=128, then leave for the weekend and
return on Monday, I will only be able to retrieve 128 new messages, regardless
of how many arrived over the weekend.

I'm not sure if this is what was intended -- I think it makes more sense to
have ?limit=XXX only affect the initial retrieval. In all other cases, when a
tracking uuid cookie is present, it should return all messages regardless of
?limit=.

Does that make sense?

-K

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-18 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-12 21:08 pop3 usability thoughts Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-09-12 22:40 ` [RFC] pop3: support `?limit=$NUM' parameter in mailbox name Eric Wong
2023-09-13  6:20   ` Eric Wong
2023-09-13 15:33     ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-09-13 22:03       ` Eric Wong
2023-09-15 19:17         ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-09-13 16:08   ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-09-14  0:38     ` Eric Wong
2023-09-15 20:03       ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-09-15 20:41         ` Eric Wong
2023-09-18 13:46           ` Konstantin Ryabitsev [this message]
2023-09-18 21:14             ` Eric Wong
2023-09-19 21:28               ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-09-22  2:18                 ` [PATCH] pop3: support initial_limit " Eric Wong
2023-09-22 18:02                   ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-09-22 18:38                     ` Eric Wong

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