[Dovecot] Retrieving unread message count

[Brandon Davidson]

Timo,

On 10/17/10 3:56 PM, "Timo Sirainen" <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> The reason why STATUS is mentioned to be possibly slow is to discourage
> clients from doing a STATUS to all mailboxes.
> 
> STATUS is definitely faster than SELECT+SEARCH with all IMAP servers.

That's what I figured, thanks! Other than actually calling THREAD and
counting the resulting groups, is there a good way to get a count of
threads?

-Brad