On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > However there is a minor downside in the file browser (well directory > browser really isn't it), the information shown against the > directories (at the bottom level these are maildir mailboxes) is > pretty useless, what I am seeing now is like the following:- > > selling/ Sep 25 12:39 0K > shopping/ Sep 25 12:39 0K > software/ Sep 25 12:39 0K > telecoms/ Sep 25 12:39 0K > > No size information and the date is just the date of creation of the > parent directory, not the latest message. With mbox you get a 'last > message' date and a meaningful size.
They may be maildirs, but in the file browser they are directories, for the purpose of navigating the file system. In that context, the fact that they are maildirs is not relevant: In the context of browsing files, you want info about the files, which is what Mutt gives you. This is somewhat configurable (see the manual about folder_format), but it's not going to give you any info about the mail that's in those directories... Wrong context. There IS size info, although it's wrong... That appears to be a bug introduced some time after 1.9.4, which I have lying around, that has it right. I also have 1.12.2 where it is wrong, so... somewhere in between. However the size of a directory is very likely not what you think it is, and is not particularly useful to you. On Unix systems, at least for most file systems, the size of a directory is the space occupied by the blocks needed to hold the internal representation of the listing of the directory... NOT the size of the contents of the directory. The size increases with the number of files in the directory (but not their size), and it is a multiple of the disk block size, so it's almost always (exactly) 1K, 4K, 8K, 16K, or an exact multiple thereof... Mutt could, in theory, get the size of the contents of the directory for you... but in order to do that it would need to do the equivalent of du -s <folder> ON EVERY SUBDIRECTORY IN THE DIRECTORY YOU ARE BROWSING, which is prohibitively expensive, no matter what hardware you are on. If you had that feature, I'm fairly positive you would turn it off immediately. I don't think any sane maintainer would commit a patch for that... -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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