On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 08:44:34AM +0000, David Woodfall wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 08:01:21AM +0000, James Griffin > <jmz.grif...@kode5.net> put forth the proposition: > >--> David Woodfall <d...@dawoodfall.net> [2013-02-06 21:59:48 +0000]: > No it works fine now. Just trying out a couple of shell scripts > similar to Andre's, but much simpler: > > mailboxes.sh: > ########################## > #!/bin/sh > > set -e > MAILDIR="/home/david/mail" > HOSTNAME="blackswan" > > for f in $(find $MAILDIR -name "*," -o -name "*$HOSTNAME" | cut -d'/' -f5 | \ > sort -u | sed 's/^\.//') > do > if [ "$f" == "new" ] || [ "$f" == "cur" ]; then > f="INBOX" > fi > echo -n " +"$f > done > > echo ######################## > > It seems to be working fine but for some reason I'm unable to bind it to a > macro in browser: > > macro browser z "|~/.mutt/mailboxes.sh\n" > > This just tells me that key is unbound, and I've tried it elsewhere like > index, which works, but I'd rather have it in browser where I'm actually > looking at the mailboxes.
Well, not quite obvious at first, but easy to understand: Your script generates just a list of mailbox names, e.g. "+foo +bar +baz". That output is usable by feeding it into a mailboxes-command. e.g. "mailboxes `mailboxes.sh`". And that command in turn you can bind to a macro.: "macro browser z "mailboxes `mailboxes.sh`" But: that macro will be generated while parsing the config, so it will execute "mailboxes +foo +bar +baz" when it is called. So you need to source that out into a seperate file, that than in turn is sourced by the macron on demand. So you essentially end up with a state that I already had: commit 17cb8a4ff0a455073fba19fdb95871b73ddf480e in my mutt-repo. At that time I was still using the 1st version of my mailboxes-script, but it got unmanageable as some of my folders grew too big. So the runtime of the script ended up being 30-60s, depending on the speed of my NFS-server serving the Maildir. So I reimplemented it using perl (because I wanted to do perl anyway some day) and build it to be completely optimized. The issue I diagnosed with the old version was that it ran through all directories and file to find unread mails, but that takes too long. In the perl-version I stop at the first occurance of an unread mail or don't even check the cur-directory if already the new-directory has contents. And I also avoid going into cur, new or tmp directories if it should print all anyway. But it is up to you what way you want to go. Have fun, Andre -- Andre Klärner
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