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Re: [Extra] QUOTA: representing "no limit" while still giving counts

Timo Sirainen <timo@sirainen.com> Wed, 20 November 2019 09:36 UTC

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On 20. Nov 2019, at 10.06, Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmailteam.com> wrote:
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> An issue I've had with QUOTA in the past is that I've set a limit on storage but not on "number of messages".  Internally, our server is storing all the counts, but it has "-1" (aka: unlimited) as the limit.
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> There's no way in the wire protocol to indicate this.  I'm not sure if it's possible to do it in a backwards compatible way other than just say "use UINT32_MAX for unlimited", but it would be nice to define that in the spec and tell clients to treat UINT32_MAX in that field as "unlimited" for display purposes.

What's wrong with just not sending the MESSAGE reply when it's unlimited?

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