Hi all.  Firstly I'd like to thank all the mutt developers for really
putting together a great mailer.  I've tried a bunch recently and mutt
is among the most promising.  It is very configurable and puts a lot
of power at your fingertips.  However, I'm experiencing two big
problems I haven't figured out how to solve from the documentation:

1.  How do I get a list of folders with new messages in them?  What
        I'd like is to press a button and get a numbered list of folders
        with the number of new messages in them.  Then to change folder I
        could just type in the number.

        Or maybe Mutt works some other way.  Just right now I don't see an
        easy way to see a summary of how many new messages are in which
        folders.

        I was thinking of trying to come up with a script myself that
        would produce such a listing.  If I did, it looks like it would be
        easy in Mutt to bind that to a key, but how would that script
        communicate the command to change to a particular folder?  Is that
        possible with Mutt?  I wanted to make sure before I tried writing
        the script.

2.  Changing folders is really slow.  Right now I'm using IMAP and it
        seems to take about a full second for every 1000 messages in the
        folder.  By contrast, I'd say Evolution was about twice (?) as
        fast when initially reading the folder upon startup, and very
        fast (1.5-2+ orders of magnitude faster) when revisiting one.

        I'm not especially wedded to IMAP (with Mutt I can just ssh into
        my machine) so if the answer is that Mutt isn't good with imap and
        much better with mbox or mh or whatever, that's fine.  I just
        didn't want to spend an hour switching everything and then only
        get a 2x speedup or something.

        Also, I saw a "maildir header caching" patch by Michael Elkins -
        is that relevant to my problem?

Thanks for any advice on these two problems.


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Ben Escoto

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