On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 12:38:28AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > My initial target for deploying POP3 support is to allow Gmail users to
> > pull-subscribe to mailing lists, since Gmail is the #1 provider that we have
> > trouble with message delivery due to their draconian threshold limits.
> > However, I think if the default behaviour results in dumping 50,000 messages
> > into people's inboxes, they wouldn't use it, which is why I think we should
> > have a default that is lighter both on the server side and on the users.
> 
> OK, I think this could work (goes on top of my previous limit patch):

Yes, it looks good in my tests:

- specifying the username as `[uuid]@org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel` downloads
  1000 messages
- specifying the username as `[uuid]@org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel?limit=128`
  properly downloads only 128
- tested in both Claws-mail and Thunderbird

Tested-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstan...@linuxfoundation.org>

Thanks!

-K

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