Simple way to get mailbox size by folder.

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Tue Dec 13 17:29:56 UTC 2016


Hi!

You could use doveadm http api instead. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Design/DoveadmProtocol/HTTP

It takes same parameters as command line.

Aki

> On December 13, 2016 at 6:25 PM 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
> >


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