Hi, * Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Rocco Rutte <pd...@gmx.net> [06-23-09 17:16]: > > * Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > > > One think I find lacking is a flag in the > > > directory listing similar to the "N", new mail flag, showing folders > > > containing "O", old mail. I want to know where *unread* mail is, not > > > *just* new mail. > > > > This is not as easy at it sounds. At least (unfortunately) not without > > full parsing with mbox which is bad. For maildir you'd have to walk the > > cur/ subdirectory which can be huge and or painfully slow with a slow > > FS. "Just new mail" is well defined so that checking folders is really > > cheap. > > Is this something perhaps that could be added to header_cache without > so much overhead?
Maybe. But that'd work only while you use mutt to mark mails as old, as soon as another tool comes into play it's get unreliable (e.g. unison). Rocco
