From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: 32526@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32526: 26.1; Fetching of emails for INBOX hangs
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 14:04:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86lfx2m6fk.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736v355p5.fsf@maria.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
On Sat 13 Jul 2019, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Your nnimap INBOX seems to use message IDs that overflow the 32-bit
> range. This is something that nnimap just doesn't support
> unfortunately, so there will be hangs.
>
> The only way to work around this is to make the IMAP server renumber the
> articles to "compact" them.
If that is purely a limitation of the fixnum size on 32bit platforms,
then there two other options:
a) Build emacs configured with "--with-wide-int" so 32bit emacs uses a
wider integer type (so fixnums are typically 62bit).
b) Build emacs from master which uses libgmp for arbitrary size
integers.
AndyM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-13 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-25 6:19 bug#32526: 26.1; Fetching of emails for INBOX hangs Thomas Meyer
2019-07-13 2:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-13 13:04 ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2019-07-13 14:32 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-13 14:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-15 21:40 ` Thomas Meyer
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