On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 07:34:55PM +0800, du yang wrote: > > On Tuesday 01/11/11 18:39:29 CST, Yue Wu wrote: > > Hi, group, > > > > As the title, I want to only show the folders have new emails when in > > folder view, how to do that? > > > > I'm using a method, but don't know if there's a better or built-in > > way: write a sh script to detect if the mail folder has files in new/, > > if yes, then add it in mailboxes command. > > In the folder view, what are displayed are the defined mailboxes, and they > are defined in the muttrc statically. > > Mailboxes with no new mails have to be undefined if we just want to display > mailboxes with new mail. > > Maybe using macro is the best way to implement the function. > But according the mutt manual, it seems there is no variable to check a > mailbox having new mails a not and it is had to implement control flows > inside macros. > > Maybe it is possible to use a external program to check which mailboxes have > new mails, then dynamically define those mailboxes undefined others. >
I got it, I don't need the fancy feature to dynamically show the just folders that have new emails, a sh script to define the mailboxes for new email folders is enough for me, just curious if there's a better way :) -- Regards, Yue Wu Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicines Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine China Pharmaceutical University No.24, Tongjia Xiang Street, Nanjing 210009, China
