retrieving quotas in one single protocol command

[Ken Murchison]

Claudio Saavedra wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm writing part of a program that would generate a report of users
> overquota in imap cyrus servers through sockets and using the protocol
> specification (RFC2087).
> 
> The problem is that using a single command for each mailbox is too slow,
> for instance, when connecting to a remote server every GETQUOTA
> execution takes about 0.1 s. due to the connection delay and when its
> needed to get the quota of 6000 mailboxes would be needed about 10
> minutes to generate the report.
> 
> In contrast, when executing one single command like LIST to retrieve the
> complete list of mailboxes, that delay of 0.1 s. it is not a problem.
> 
> Therefore, i wonder, exists some way to retrieve all the quotas of every
> single mailbox, with just one command execution?

Nope, not unless you extend the GETQUOTA command to take a wildcard.

Have you tried pipelining the GETQUOTA commands so that you reduce the 
number of roundtrips?

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