Hello, What does this information mean and how is it relevant? I cannot find documentation other than a brief description in dovecot.conf: %t - number of TOP commands %p - number of bytes sent to client as a result of TOP command %r - number of RETR commands %b - number of bytes sent to client as a result of RETR command Thanks in advance, Cliff
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 13:56 -0600, Cliff Hayes wrote:> Hello, > > What does this information mean and how is it relevant? > I cannot find documentation other than a brief description in dovecot.conf: > > %t - number of TOP commands > %p - number of bytes sent to client as a result of TOP commandPOP3's TOP command retrieves only message headers. I don't think clients use it much (if ever).> %r - number of RETR commands > %b - number of bytes sent to client as a result of RETR commandRETR commands actually download the mail. So these show how many times a client downloaded message, and how many bytes of message data was sent to client as a result of that. They're statistics. You either care about those numbers or you don't. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20091229/0f16a669/attachment-0002.bin>
On 11:59 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:> > POP3's TOP command retrieves only message headers. I don't think clients > use it much (if ever).Actually, my Windows client of choice for scanning my incoming mail[1] is a POP3 client that emulates some IMAP functionality and uses TOP extensively. In fact, it never downloads a message body unless specifically requested. [1] Popcorn <http://www.ultrafunk.com/popcorn/> -- Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 29.12.2009 21:10, Timo Sirainen wrote:>> What does this information mean and how is it relevant? >> I cannot find documentation other than a brief description in dovecot.conf: >> >> %t - number of TOP commands >> %p - number of bytes sent to client as a result of TOP command > POP3's TOP command retrieves only message headers.Um, no, since it's "TOP <msgno> <bodylines>", you can retrieve any number of lines from the message's body.> I don't think clients use it much (if ever).Fetchmail uses "TOP %d 99999999" to get some obscure pseudo-IMAP behaviour. I don't know about real clients, though. One would think that there should be clients that use it for message-preview (and download-on-demand).