GNU bug report logs - #32526
26.1; Fetching of emails for INBOX hangs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Thomas Meyer <thomas <at> m3y3r.de>

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 06:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 26.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32526: 26.1; Fetching of emails for INBOX hangs
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 14:04:47 +0100

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
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