[Dovecot] 1.2.13 QRESYNC crash.

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Aug 26 19:06:44 EEST 2010


On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 17:02 +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 14:32 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > > Or if you want flags for messages you haven't even seen yet,
> > > 1:4294967295 should work too.
> > 
> > 1:4294967295 doesn't really fill me with joy either -- that assumes that
> > a UID is limited to 32 bits unsigned... 
> 
> It is, as defined by RFC 3501.
> 
> > and that other servers won't
> > fall over when presented with that number.
> 
> Well, those servers would also be broken then.. I think servers can
> typically handle such UID better than clients (many clients use signed
> 32bit ints). I think there's a good chance it would work fine with all
> servers that support QRESYNC.

OK, I'll do that then. Thanks.

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dwmw2



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