Hi there,
I recently installed a plugin for SquirelMail (php imap client, squirrelmail.org) which adds up message sizes per folder to display a nice total size of each subscribed folder. After consulting the plugin maintainers at SquirrelMail in this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.plugins/12468/focus=12468
There is quite a discrepancy in the rfc822.size reported by Dovecot and the actual space it takes up on my harddisk. I know there could be some overhead here from all the dovecot* and subscription list files in my imap folders, but like I stated in my email to the SquirrelMail plugin mailing list, about 1mb for a 4.3mb maildir mailbox might be a but much. Could this be like Tomas Kuliavas wrote: "Maybe those message have some data that does not belong to message or their formating breaks dovecot's message parsing functions."? I'm using Dovecot-1.0.rc15, sorry if this has been fixed between this release and the current.
Kindest regards,
Tristan
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