On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 05:41:27PM -0400, Maciej Kalisiak wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 05:14:24PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> > I believe that would require each file in the directory to be scanned
> > to determine if there is any unread email in it. Mutt would probably
> > have to start using summary files to do this efficiently, I do not
> > think it keeps any now, or at least I haven't been able to find any.
> Yes, I looked at the code and came to the same conclusion. Too bad can't do
> the same trick as for newemail, only checking the last message... sigh.
> Perhaps in time this summary information will become required anyways for some
> other feature, yet to come. But such information would probably require quite
> a bit of code to be touched/updated, to make sure that the info is constantly
> up to date...
A simpler way that would allow marking folders with unread mail might
be to leave an empty marker file when there is unread mail in a
folder, that way keeping it up to date would only involve removing or
making the marker file. Of course a summary file would contain alot
more useful information than an empty marker file could, but as you
say it could involve alot of changes.
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Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS
West Dover Hundred, Delaware
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