Re: [bug-mailutils] movemail: needs more verbosity

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Jean,

> - to show how many emails are there on server, before fetching them,

When given the -v option, movemail does exactly that.  It prints

  number of messages in source mailbox: NNN

before trying to retrieve any mails.  If it doesn't, enable
additional debugging to see what's going on behind the scene.  The

  --debug-level='mailbox.prot,!trace6'

will show you the entire (IMAP|POP) transaction on the protocol level.

>   something like 0/18, then to update 0 to 1, and so on, until there
>   is 18/18, with 18 emails as example.

What you describe sounds like progress meter.  As a diagnostic tool it
is of little (if any) value, but it can be implemented, of course.

Regards,
Sergey