[Dovecot] OT: Counting emails in IMAP folders

[Nigel Allen]

Jose Celestino wrote:
> Words by Nigel Allen [Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:51:32PM +1100]:
>   
>> Greetings
>>
>> I have a customer who has mail server running dovecot with an IMAP  
>> account (Customers) which contains hundreds of folders (one per customer).
>>
>> Looks like this:
>>
>> Customers
>>    Fred Smith and Co
>>    Joe Blogss
>>    Cust-1
>>    Cust-n
>>   
>>
>> They have a requirement to report monthly on the total number of emails  
>> added to each customers' folder during the month.
>>
>> Basically I need to be able to run some kind of command line query that  
>> will give me each of the sub-folder names and the number of emails added  
>> to the folder for that month (or other user-specified time period).
>>
>> Any ideas please?
>>
>>     
>
> Will do that over imap or on the filesystem? Are you using maildir,
> mbox, dbox?
>   
We can do it over imap or on the server (FC6). They are using maildir.

Rgds

Nigel.