On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 07:01:25PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 08:29:22PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > > > This is by no means a show stopper, I'm going to stay with maildir,
> > > > but it woud be nice to be able to improve it a bit.
> > >
> > > I'd recommend using a "maildir browser" which knows how to interpret the
> > > information you're looking for (and which mutt is very good at).
> > >
> > ?? I'm a bit lost here, you recommend a "maildir browser" and say "...
> > which mutt is very good at", so is mutt a maildir browser?
>
> Translation: The file browser is for files (and directories, which are
> also files, albeit special ones) and tells you information that is
> generally useful for file-things. For mail, use the message index
> and/or the sidebar. Most directories *are not* mail folders, and
> therefore attempting to display information useful for mail folders on
> directories in the file browser is the Wrong Thing™.
Yes, but maildir 'mailboxes' *are* directories and when I navigate to
one in mutt the date is the date the directory was created (nothing to
do with the date(s) of the latest mail in there) and no sizes or
anything are displayed.
For example I have a directory /home/chris/mail/folder/apexLodge/agm
which is a maildir:-
chris@esprimo$ ls -l /home/chris/mail/folder/apexLodge/agm
total 12
drwx------ 2 chris chris 4096 Sep 25 12:38 cur
drwx------ 2 chris chris 4096 Sep 25 12:38 new
drwx------ 2 chris chris 4096 Sep 25 12:38 tmp
chris@esprimo$
All the file browser shows me at the level above is:-
../
-> agm/
ardavan/
barnet/
boilerbreakdowns/
brunoSuarez/
buildingsInsurance/
charles.rustin/
clearance2019/
crawford/
..
..
I have 'set folder_format="%N %-32.32f %m %n"'. I did have a date as
well but all that shows is 'Sep 25' the date of creation of the
maildir which is no use at all, it's just the date that the maildir was
created nothing to do with the dates of mail inside tne maildir.
The same place in a mbox hierarchy shows me the size of the maibox and
the date of the last change.
--
Chris Green
