[plt-scheme] imap-get-messages for big sets

Quoting Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu>:

> At Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:01:15 -0500 (EST), dvanhorn at emba.uvm.edu wrote:
> > I'm retrieving messages from an IMAP server in the following manner...
> > 
> > (let-values (((imap msg-count recent-msg-count) 
> >               (imap-connect ...)))
> >   (imap-get-messages imap (range i j) '(uid)))
> > 
> > Where (range i j) returns a list (i (+ i 1) ... j).
> > 
> > I've noticed that for a range of length ~1900 or greater, the following error
> > occurs:
> > 
> >    imap-get-messages: no result for message i
> > 
> > Any ideas on why this is happening?
> 
> Do you know whether your sever has a limit on the number of messages
> for one request? If you talk to the server directly with telnet, does
> it provide info for all of the requested range?

I can't figure out how to talk enough IMAP to find out.  But I suspect that
there is a limit and this is the problem, not PLT.

Thanks,
David


> (I've never tried to download information about more than 1500 or so
> messages at once, but I can't see any way that "imap.ss" would be
> limited.)
> 
> Matthew
>