Subject: bug#51887: 28.0.60; Gnus use imap.163.com will hang emacs and ran out of memory

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:11:58 +0100

"Feng Shu" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
>   gnus-uncompress-range((1 . 1320004225))
>   gnus-articles-to-read("nnimap+imap.163.com:mail.misc" t)

Gnus doesn't deal well with newsgroups that have message numbers in the
billions by default.  Does setting gnus-newsgroup-maximum-articles help
here?

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