OT, question on IMAP

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Etienne Goyer wrote:

> Secondly, the RFC have the following to say concerning the STATUS
> command :
>
>       Unlike the LIST command, the STATUS command is not guaranteed to
>       be fast in its response.  Under certain circumstances, it can be
>       quite slow.  In some implementations, the server is obliged to
>       open the mailbox read-only internally to obtain certain status
>       information.
>
> Is this the case with Cyrus ?  Can the STATUS command be considered
> expensive ?

Its not "free" (you do have to open the mailbox in question to do it), but
its not expensive (we don't need to look at every single message in the
mailbox, like some mail stores).

-Rob

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