Hello, David Carter a écrit : >> As far as I understand, the cause of the problem is : * "Outlook is >> sending either a token or quoted string that is longer than 8K bytes." > > Your problem is a mailbox which contains several thousand messages. > Possibly several thousand messages which Outlook hasn't seen previously. > > Outlook tries to construct a single IMAP command of the form: > > UID FETCH uid,uid,uid,... <some set of fields> > > where the list of UIDs is larger than 8 KBytes in size. > >> But how could I correct this problem either in Outlook or cyrus ??? > > Split the problem mailbox into smaller mailboxes using something other > than Outlook. A mailbox or a folder ? I mean, if we can split messages into different folders will it solve the problem as well ? > Alternatively you could increase the word limit in Cyrus. > MAXWORD is 32k in recent Cyrus 2.3 versions. Question, I suppose I would need to compile Cyrus, if I wanted to change the word limit ? Thank you very much for your help Denis ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html