Retreiving folders size from clients

[Joseph Brennan]

> I wonder if there's a standard way for retreive folders size from the
> client side ?


The protocol does not have a command for that, but the client could
get the size of each message and add them.

Many clients actually cache a local copy of the mailbox, and do their
read and write from that, synching changes to the server.  It's like
they're always on offline mode to some extent.  If a client does this,
it can figure out mailbox size locally without asking the server.  I
believe Outlook is one of these.

Joseph Brennan
Columbia University Information Technology