On Sunday, 26 September 1999 at 17:20, Derek Quinn Wyatt wrote:
> Howdie,
> 
> I am using IMAP in 1.0pre3 and the no_of_lines column in the index is
> 0 until i fetch and read the message.  Is there a way to have mutt
> download the number of lines in a message when it gets the index?  I
> get a lot of mail from root with various junk in them and it would be
> nice to know the ones i can delete immediately :P

There is unfortunately no way to get a line count from the server
without downloading the messages. But, you can see the size of the
messages in bytes. Change your $index_format variable to use something
like (%4c) instead of (%4l) (is it l for lines? I forget...). This works
well enough for me.

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