Simple way to get mailbox size by folder.

[Vijay Sarvepalli]

Hello Mike and Aki,

Thanks for the response.  I had  been using FETCH 1:* in my IMAP module,
but found it slow with folders with lots of messages or even large-sized
messages folder.  The doveadm seems elegant and faster but I hate to fork a
command line from web-UI, for obvious security and performance reasons.  It
will be great if dovecot team will consider IMAP extensions to release
doveadm features when useful/relevant like this.

Regards
Vijay

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Michael Slusarz <michael.slusarz at dovecot.fi>
wrote:

> On 12/3/2016 2:53 PM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>
>>
>> On December 3, 2016 at 11:16 PM Vijay Sarvepalli <vijay at ericavijay.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a simple way to get each mailbox size using dovecot's IMAP
>>> interface?  The GETQUOTAROOT and GETQUOTA seems to work with the full
>>> maildir size and not the individual folders.
>>>
>>> I am finding a simple way for the webmail client to show usage of each
>>> folder.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Vijay
>>>
>>
>> $ doveadm mailbox status -u cmouse all INBOX
>> INBOX messages=9206 recent=0 uidnext=33115 uidvalidity=1451655531
>> unseen=7 highestmodseq=39954  vsize=538582181 guid=d595a62d65818656f72c00007
>> 4be03de
>>
>> $ doveadm -fjson mailbox status -u cmouse at cmouse.fi all INBOX
>> [{"mailbox":"INBOX","messages":"9206","recent":"0","uidnext"
>> :"33115","uidvalidity":"1451655531","unseen":"7","highestmod
>> seq":"39954","vsize":"538582181","guid":"d595a62d658
>> 18656f72c000074be03de"}]
>>
>
> If you want an IMAP specific method (rather than doveadm), you are stuck
> with "FETCH 1:* (RFC822.SIZE)".  With the nasty requirement - if you want
> 100% full accuracy - that you need to track responses to ensure that each
> size is only counted once.  Practically speaking this shouldn't happen by
> any reasonable server, but the warning needs to be made.
>
> michael
>