On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:27:53AM +0000, Dave Pearson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:01:42PM -0800, Trae McCombs wrote:
>
> > One thing that I think would help not only me, but tons of others is
> > something like this:
> >
> > mailbox 1 3 new messages
> > mailbox 2 12 new messages
> > mailbox 3 8 new messages
how about this ?
Mail/mutt-users [Msgs:413 New:18 1.1M]
Mail/sf/vuln-dev [Msgs:141 478K]
Mail/nymip [Msgs:54 368K]
now wouldn't that be nice ?
> >
> >
> > Where you had the "status bar" that you could move up and down between
> > mailboxes... and then you would get into the messages of that mailbox.
>
> Although it doesn't give you the count you're after it sounds more or less
> like you're asking for the screen you'll be presented with if you start mutt
> with the "-y" switch ("man mutt" lists all the available switches).
the problem with "-y" is that it simply doesn't work reliably.
to quote the docs:
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Note: new mail is detected by comparing the last modification time to
the last access time. Utilities like biff or frm or any other program
which accesses the mailbox might cause Mutt to never detect new mail
for that mailbox if they do not properly reset the access time. Backup
tools are another common reason for updated access times.
-----------
same happens when you change to one of those folders and you quit
without saving changes to another folder. if you change into that
folder again you will see mails marked as new though the folder was
not marked by "N" in the folder menue.
i'm not sure if saving a mail from your main incoming folder to one of
the other folders will reset its access time as well .. havn't tried
yet.
BTW: unread but old mail is not detected that way at all.
i see the problem but i have not yet seen a correct solution to it.
i guess i could hatch one if somebody told me how mutt recognizes new
and unread mail inside a folder. yes i am to damn lazy to read the
source :-)))
-heinrich
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