Total Number of Emails Managed By Thunderbird

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Apr 14 21:50:16 UTC 2009


Tim:
>> Wouldn't it just be counting the totals from the index of each
>> folder, not counting all the messages?

Jerry Feldman:
> Certainly more attractive to read the index files, but still costly. 
> Remember that there also could be imap folders.

I suppose it would depend on the IMAP server.  Do some keep their own
indexes?  I can't see any evidence of Dovecot doing that when it's
storing mail in mailspool files.

I would have thought a mail client would have been keeping a running
count, adding to it as it goes along.  Though, if you used two different
clients, at different times, that wouldn't work.

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