On Thu, Jun 14 2012, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:

> Honestly, I'd just do a limited search.  You're already doing an
> EXAMINE, so you just need to parse the results to get the EXISTS count.
> Then a "UID SEARCH N:* HEADER Message-ID ..."  where N is the exist
> count minus a small constant.
>
> If the limited search fails, just re-call the function with recent set
> to nil.

Another try.