<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi John,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks a million for your insight. I believe this is the thread to which you refer:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2019-October/117219.html" class="">https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2019-October/117219.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 30, 2020, at 5:48 AM, John Stoffel <<a href="mailto:john@stoffel.org" class="">john@stoffel.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">"Antonio" == Antonio Leding <<a href="mailto:tech@leding.net" class="">tech@leding.net</a>> writes:<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br class="">Antonio> Hello all…<br class="">Antonio> First, a disclaimer…I am aware that this is very likely not a Dovecot related issue but I am truly pulling whatever hair I have left out of my head and given the brain-power of this mailer, I thought someone might know what is going in here.<br class=""><br class="">Antonio> The issues is this…<br class=""><br class="">Antonio> I check the message counts for a given account using doveadm<br class="">Antonio> and get a given number. I then configure the same account in<br class="">Antonio> 3 mail clients: Apple Mail, Mailmate, and Thunderbird. Both<br class="">Antonio> the Mailmate and Thunderbird message counts match exactly<br class="">Antonio> with the doveadm numbers. Apple Mail is low in almost all<br class="">Antonio> cases.<br class=""><br class="">I think the problem is that Apple probably uses "SELECT INBOX" instead<br class="">of "EXAMINE" mailbox. Look in the archives for my question about this<br class="">issue back in Oct 1, 2019. It's a client issue, and (imho) a mistake<br class="">in the IMAP specification. But I haven't spent any time reading the<br class="">spec closely to understand the reasoning.<br class=""><br class="">John<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>