#478549 [ipopd] Ipopd does not support mailbox's larger than 2 GB, at least with pop3.

Package:
src:uw-imap
Source:
uw-imap
Submitter:
Mike Dresser
Date:
2025-08-17 17:47:19 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#478549#5
Date:
2008-04-29 18:21:16 UTC
From:
To:
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Ipopd does not appear to support mbox's over 2 GiB via pop3 downloads.

+OK POP3 localhost v2003.83 server ready
user *****
+OK User name accepted, password please
pass *****
+OK Mailbox open, 0 messages
uidl
+OK Unique-ID listing follows
.

Currently that account has a ~3.2 GiB mbox (about 2-3 weeks of email for
that particular account).  Smaller mbox's work just fine.  If i crop the
file to 2 GiB, ipopd works as expected.

Debian Release: lenny/sid
500 unstable www.debian-multimedia.org
500 unstable mirrors.kernel.org
500 unstable http.us.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
====================================-+-================
debconf (>= 0.5) | 1.5.21
OR debconf-2.0 |
libc-client2007 |
libc6 (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-10
libcomerr2 (>= 1.33-3) | 1.40.8-2
libkrb53 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2) | 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
libpam-runtime (>= 0.76-13.1) | 0.99.7.1-6
libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1) | 0.99.7.1-6
libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-1) | 0.9.8g-8
openbsd-inetd | 0.20080125-1
OR inet-superserver |
openssl | 0.9.8g-8
#478549#18
Date:
2012-01-20 08:16:51 UTC
From:
To:
 I am wondering if the mailbox format used by the bug reporter is MBX?

 UW-imap supports 3 formats:
  Unix mailbox - much higher limit (but may slow down to a crawl as it gets large)
  MBX - faster than Unix mailbox, 2GB limit
  MIX  - newest, ridiculously fast for large mailboxes and its size limit is higher than any of the others.