* Dmitry Marakasov on Monday, March 26, 2012 at 21:12:24 +0400 > I have mutt set up to generate a list of mailboxes on the startup > automatically (in a way similar to what is written under `Building > a list of "mailboxes" on the fly' of http://wiki.mutt.org/?ConfigTricks). > This is really convenient as I have many mailboxes which are created > automatically with procmail, however with time it becomes uncomfortably > slow, as find(1) has to stat()'s each file it encounters, and that > includes all the mail message files, while in my case there're 250k > of them. -maxdepth option of find won't help either, as I have > maildirs on a different levels of filesystem hierarchy.
Not if you play around with find's -prune option: mailboxes `$SHELL -c "\`find ~/Maildir -type d \( -name cur -o -name tmp -o -name new -execdir pwd \; \) -prune \`"` which can be further simplified if your find provides -printf. > To fix that, I've written a simple utility which I'd like to announce. > The utility traverses a directory hierarchy and prints names of > mailboxes (maildirs) it finds in mutt-compatible format. Unlike > find(1) method documented in the wiki it does not descend into > maildirs themselves, thus is a lot faster. > > Invocation: > $ findmaildirs ~/.mail > +inbox +archives/foo +archives/bar +maillists/freebsd/ports > +maillists/freebsd/announce +maillists/lkml ... > > Using in mutt: > mailboxes `findmaildirs ~/.mail` > > GitHub project page: > https://github.com/AMDmi3/findmaildirs > > FreeBSD port: > http://www.freshports.org/mail/findmaildirs > > OpenSUSE build service page with some RPMs: > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=findmaildirs&project=home%3AAMDmi3 -- Python Mutt utilities --->> https://bitbucket.org/blacktrash/muttils
