"Antonio" == Antonio Leding tech@leding.net writes:
Antonio> Hello all… Antonio> First, a disclaimer…I am aware that this is very likely not a Dovecot related issue but I am truly pulling whatever hair I have left out of my head and given the brain-power of this mailer, I thought someone might know what is going in here.
Antonio> The issues is this…
Antonio> I check the message counts for a given account using doveadm Antonio> and get a given number. I then configure the same account in Antonio> 3 mail clients: Apple Mail, Mailmate, and Thunderbird. Both Antonio> the Mailmate and Thunderbird message counts match exactly Antonio> with the doveadm numbers. Apple Mail is low in almost all Antonio> cases.
I think the problem is that Apple probably uses "SELECT INBOX" instead of "EXAMINE" mailbox. Look in the archives for my question about this issue back in Oct 1, 2019. It's a client issue, and (imho) a mistake in the IMAP specification. But I haven't spent any time reading the spec closely to understand the reasoning.
John