what's the most efficient way to check multiple user's unseen message counts?

[Jack Snodgrass]

I have 100+ users that login to a web page to do their daily task. They 
stay on that page all day.  We have a 'unread' message count for each 
user's email account and some other shared accounts ( fax, 
customer-service, etc). Every 60 seconds, the web server does a php 
imap_open / imap_status  / imap _close for each user ( and the shared 
accounts ) and updates the web page with their unseen message count.

This has always struck me as inefficient.... We generate a lot of log 
messages constantly just to keep track of the unseen message count.

Is there a better way to handle this other than don't do this or do this 
less often?

We're using cyrus 2.4.  ( recently migrated from 2.2 )

I am not opposed to running a shell script on the mail server and 
returning the unseen counts for all users via a file system check or db 
read -vs- imap api.

I've thought of using imap idle but when we looked at that with cyrus 
2.2, it did not work for us.... might look at that again.

Just wanted to know if anyone had any thoughts on this.


Thanks - jack

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*jack* - Southlake Texas - http://mylinuxguy.net 
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