Re: Default mailbox display?

[Axel Bichler]

Hi Dirk!

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dirk Ruediger wrote:

> > 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 ?
> 
> This implies that mutt scans all folders with new mail (at least with
> mbox style folders)to determine the new-mail-count. This could be a huge
> performance loss at start up.

No, not necessarily. Mutt could save the filesizes. If the
size has changed, new mail has arrived. Counting new mails
could be pretty fast, if the program would skip the known
part (old size) of the mbox file and parse the file from
that point on. 

Regards,
Axel