I have a situation that I need to get a list of UIDs in a range but I have no
idea how many UIDs is
in that range. I can't just request all of the UIDs in a range since there might be thousands of
UIDs and I can't give the impression that the application isn't doing anything while I wait for the
UIDs to be retrieved.
What I'm looking for is that I can give a starting UID and say I want 25 UIDs. Then I can keep
calling that until I know that I have all of the UID based on the number of messages in the IMAP
folder. Is there such a thing?
I know you give a UID range, as in "UID:UID-25" and that might give you up to 25 UIDs or 0, but all
I know is that the "NEXTUID" is a very large value and it's time consuming to have to keep calling
the server for every UID that doesn't exist.
I'm currently calling mail_search_full to get the list of UIDs, either "1:NEXTUID" or
"LASTUID:NEXTUID", so obviously, "1:NEXTUID" can be very time consuming depending on how many
messages is in the folder.
Regards,
Shawn
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