lib/PublicInbox/Over.pm | 4 ++--

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Over.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Over.pm
index e0f20ea6d3da2de5a1e92cdd84fee2e66e68e4bd..e32104f0cf81754bf8ed1d6e8012eb13420f506c 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Over.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Over.pm
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ 	my $smsg = $sth->fetchrow_hashref or return;
 	load_from_row($smsg);
 }
 
-# IMAP search
+# IMAP search, this is limited by callers to UID_SLICE size (50K)
 sub uid_range {
 	my ($self, $beg, $end, $sql) = @_;
 	my $dbh = $self->connect;
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
 	# This is read-only, anyways; but caller should verify it's
 	# only sending \A[0-9]+\z for ds and ts column ranges
 	$q .= $$sql if $sql;
-	$q .= ' ORDER BY num ASC LIMIT ' . DEFAULT_LIMIT;
+	$q .= ' ORDER BY num ASC';
 	$dbh->selectcol_arrayref($q, undef, $beg, $end);
 }