I am subscribed to a LOT of mailing lists. 34, actually. And I find myself
switching around between them fairly often as I try to keep up on the latest
news with various projects.
There are a couple things that I wish mutt could do:
1. Build a hash index of all of the info displayed in the index so it doesn't
have to scan every file in the maildir (or read the whole mbox for those using
mbox) every time I open the folder as well as check for new emails and only
read those once to get the info for the hash index. I've never seen a
Unix/Linux based mailreader that actually does this. They all seem to scan the
whole folder every time. The info could be stored in a ~Maildir/.indexhash file
or something and regenerated if it is deleted for some reason.
2. Display a summary of how many read/unread/etc. in the folder list.
3. A faster and easier way to switch from one folder to another. Currently I
hit
c ? <j as many times as necessary to get to the next folder I want to read> \n
It would be nice if I could just hit N to go to the next folder. There may be a
way to do this with macros already but I'm not sure how one would get the next
folder name. This wouldn't be all that useful until the above mentioned has
index was working anyway due to the slow speed of parsing the folders.
--
Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org
