Re: [Dovecot] info deleted messages imap

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 02:41 +0100, Hola wrote:

And we don´t know the number of messages deleted, the question is: there is any directive like "pop3_logout_format" applied to IMAP?? Something like "imap_logout_format" ??

No, this is mostly because with POP3 it's very simple to give such a number. With IMAP then:

• There are more than one mailbox. Should it count messages in all mailboxes?
• IMAP has two-phase deletion. First the messages are marked as deleted, then they're expunged. Should it count expunges only? (I'd guess so)
• Some IMAP clients "delete" messages by moving them to Trash mailbox. Are those counted as deletions?
• IMAP supports multiple connections, and many clients use them. If another session expunges messages and our session sees those expunges, should they be counted?

I think there are too many problems to give any kind of useful counters. If you just want it to give somewhat unrealiable counters, I guess that could be done somewhat easily by a plugin.

Anyway, this is a low priority for me.