Simple way to get mailbox size by folder.

[Sami Ketola]

Hi,

In that case you might be better of using the doveadm http api for accessing the information over http/json interface:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Design/DoveadmProtocol/HTTP

Sami

> On 14 Dec 2016, at 1.25, Vijay Sarvepalli <vijay at ericavijay.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello Mike and Aki,
> 
> Thanks for the response.  I had  been using FETCH 1:* in my IMAP module,
> but found it slow with folders with lots of messages or even large-sized
> messages folder.  The doveadm seems elegant and faster but I hate to fork a
> command line from web-UI, for obvious security and performance reasons.  It
> will be great if dovecot team will consider IMAP extensions to release
> doveadm features when useful/relevant like this.
> 
> Regards
> Vijay
> 
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Michael Slusarz <michael.slusarz at dovecot.fi>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/3/2016 2:53 PM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On December 3, 2016 at 11:16 PM Vijay Sarvepalli <vijay at ericavijay.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a simple way to get each mailbox size using dovecot's IMAP
>>>> interface?  The GETQUOTAROOT and GETQUOTA seems to work with the full
>>>> maildir size and not the individual folders.
>>>> 
>>>> I am finding a simple way for the webmail client to show usage of each
>>>> folder.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Vijay
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> $ doveadm mailbox status -u cmouse all INBOX
>>> INBOX messages=9206 recent=0 uidnext=33115 uidvalidity=1451655531
>>> unseen=7 highestmodseq=39954  vsize=538582181 guid=d595a62d65818656f72c00007
>>> 4be03de
>>> 
>>> $ doveadm -fjson mailbox status -u cmouse at cmouse.fi all INBOX
>>> [{"mailbox":"INBOX","messages":"9206","recent":"0","uidnext"
>>> :"33115","uidvalidity":"1451655531","unseen":"7","highestmod
>>> seq":"39954","vsize":"538582181","guid":"d595a62d658
>>> 18656f72c000074be03de"}]
>>> 
>> 
>> If you want an IMAP specific method (rather than doveadm), you are stuck
>> with "FETCH 1:* (RFC822.SIZE)".  With the nasty requirement - if you want
>> 100% full accuracy - that you need to track responses to ensure that each
>> size is only counted once.  Practically speaking this shouldn't happen by
>> any reasonable server, but the warning needs to be made.
>> 
>> michael
>>