On 2016-06-15 15:11:53 +0000, Olaf Hering wrote:
> The size of a directory or symlink in the folder browser is not meaningful.
> For directories it means just how many blocks were allocated to hold all
> entries. It does not mean that the entries are still present in the directory.

It can still be interesting information. Last year, reading some empty
directory after reboot was taking 100 seconds! [*] The cause was that
the directory was very large. Now, perhaps this is less important info
in Mutt.

[*] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/04/msg00651.html

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