Re: IMAP problem: Failed to move huge message

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 03/13/2007 09:55:14 PM, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Am 13.03.07 21:15 schrieb(en) Pawel Salek:
> > I have been moving much larger messages with balsa (up to 300MB) so  
> > the
> > problem is more about the combination of Balsa *and* Exchange.
>
> Exchange is *really* crap, in particular (but not only) the IMAP  
> part...
>
> > The closest I got was appending 128MB messages to a mailbox on a  
> > server with 32MB of memory - the connection was interrupted, too.  
> > Does anything else get printed on the console?
>
> No, nothing else but the /very/ long (snipped) base64 dump, plus a  
> few ALSA/gpgme messages upon startup (the box is a FC 6 machine, but  
> balsa is self-compiled from svn).
>
> > Does Exchange hang up immediately or after a while?
>
> Good question.  Balsa is unresponsive for maybe half a minute or so  
> before the message window appears (don't recall the text, and I'm at  
> home now).  Should I look at the data stream in Wireshark to see if  
> the connection gets disturbed or terminated?

Balsa gives up if it cannot send anything to the server for a half a  
minute. It could possibly ask the question whether it should keep  
trying instead of giving up...

Pawel