[Dovecot] Wishlist item, POP3 welcome message
Hello,
With qpopper you get something like this after a successful login:
+OK test has 6 visible messages (0 hidden) in 11822 octets.
This gives a clueful user or support people a quick status about the size of this mailbox, very helpful in full quota scenarios. Would be nice if the next dovecot would have such a feature as well.
I doubt the same is (easily) applicable for IMAP (though would be trivial once maildirsize is supported).
Another thing would be PIPELINING for POP3, but I doubt it's all that helpful in this day and age of bountiful broadband.
Regards,
Christian Balzer
Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC chibi@gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:26:20PM +0900, Christian Balzer wrote:
With qpopper you get something like this after a successful login:
+OK test has 6 visible messages (0 hidden) in 11822 octets.
This gives a clueful user or support people a quick status about the size of this mailbox, very helpful in full quota scenarios.
Note that you can just type "STAT" to get the same information.
Regards,
Brian.
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 11:26, Christian Balzer wrote:
With qpopper you get something like this after a successful login:
+OK test has 6 visible messages (0 hidden) in 11822 octets.
With Dovecot the "+OK" is currently sent by pop3-login process which doesn't yet know that.. I don't think this feature alone is worth the trouble to move it over to pop3 process. Especially because there is the STAT command :)
Another thing would be PIPELINING for POP3, but I doubt it's all that helpful in this day and age of bountiful broadband.
Actually you can support that simply by adding PIPELINING to POP3 capability list. It's already in CVS.
Except there's one theoretical(?) problem with it.. pop3-login doesn't transfer buffered data to pop3 process. This means that if something was sent before PASS or AUTH command was finished, it gets lost. I'd think clients wouldn't try sending anything else until they were sure the authentication was finished, but I guess this has to be fixed some day.
Timo wrote:
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 11:26, Christian Balzer wrote:
With qpopper you get something like this after a successful login:
+OK test has 6 visible messages (0 hidden) in 11822 octets.
With Dovecot the "+OK" is currently sent by pop3-login process which doesn't yet know that.. I don't think this feature alone is worth the trouble to move it over to pop3 process. Especially because there is the STAT command :)
Totally understood and agreed, I blanked on the STAT, thanks to Brian to pointing that out as well.
[Pipelining]
Guess I'll wait for that until it's well polished, should not be a big time saver anyway.
Regards,
Christian Balzer
Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC chibi@gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/
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Brian Candler
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Christian Balzer
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Timo Sirainen