Hi,
I'm using IMAP protocol and I want to get total message count and unread message count to display near the folders. By using getMessageCount() and getUnreadMessageCount() methods of IMAPFolder, I got them but it works slow especially when calling these methods for more than one folders.
How can I get these counts more efficiently? Thanks...
You can turn on session debugging and look at the protocol trace to
see what IMAP operations these methods are using. They use what
should be relatively efficient IMAP commands, but of course the
efficiency depends heavily on your IMAP server.
A possible improvement would be to add support to the IMAP provider
for some sort of "batch" operation to get information for many folders.
This wouldn't reduce the work the server has to do, but it would reduce
the number of round trips to the server. If that's the source of your problems,
that could be considered.
