Hi John, Thanks a million for your insight. I believe this is the thread to which you refer:
https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2019-October/117219.html <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2019-October/117219.html> > On Jul 30, 2020, at 5:48 AM, John Stoffel <j...@stoffel.org> wrote: > >>>>>> "Antonio" == Antonio Leding <t...@leding.net> writes: > > Antonio> Hello all… > Antonio> First, a disclaimer…I am aware that this is very likely not a > Dovecot related issue but I am truly pulling whatever hair I have left out of > my head and given the brain-power of this mailer, I thought someone might > know what is going in here. > > Antonio> The issues is this… > > Antonio> I check the message counts for a given account using doveadm > Antonio> and get a given number. I then configure the same account in > Antonio> 3 mail clients: Apple Mail, Mailmate, and Thunderbird. Both > Antonio> the Mailmate and Thunderbird message counts match exactly > Antonio> with the doveadm numbers. Apple Mail is low in almost all > Antonio> cases. > > I think the problem is that Apple probably uses "SELECT INBOX" instead > of "EXAMINE" mailbox. Look in the archives for my question about this > issue back in Oct 1, 2019. It's a client issue, and (imho) a mistake > in the IMAP specification. But I haven't spent any time reading the > spec closely to understand the reasoning. > > John
