Re: Advice needed for new feature implementation

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 the mental interface of
Damyan Ivanov told:

> Hi,
> 
> I need a user-level function in mutt, exposing the following
> functionality:
> 
>   mutt_buffy_check(1);
>   mutt_buffy_list();
> 
> Rationale: I want to be able to forcibly check for new mails on all
> mailboxes (and see the results).
> 
> AFAICS, mutt_buffy_list() is already "exported" via OP_BUFFY_LIST
> (<buffy-list>), but there is no way to invoke mutt_buffy_check(1), other
> than waiting for the timeout. There are separate fetch-mail and
> imap-fetch-mail, but those do not operate on all mailboxes.
> 
> I need your opinion whether such feature would be accepted (if I provide
> "sufficiently good" patch).

The sidebar patch [0] in conjunction with $mailboxes is what you are
looking for ;)

Elimar

[0] http://lunar-linux.org/index.php?page=mutt-sidebar

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