[Dovecot] STATUS command and total/read message count

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 08:25 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> Some folders have only read messages, others have only unread
> messages, and some other have read and unread messages. Thunderbird
> now only shows the number of unread messages in a folder when using
> the STATUS command. In order to get the total number of messages in
> one specific folder, I have to manually open it.
> 
> So, in short, Thunderbird doesn't seem to update the total number of
> messages in a folder using the STATUS command.
> 
> From your posting I take this is generally possible, so it is a
> Thunderbird problem - right? ;-)

Right. STATUS command is capable of returning the total number of
messages in a mailbox.

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