Re: atime/mtime
* Rocco Rutte <pdmef@xxxxxxx> [06-23-09 17:16]:
> * Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>
> > One think I find lacking is a flag in the
> > directory listing similar to the "N", new mail flag, showing folders
> > containing "O", old mail. I want to know where *unread* mail is, not
> > *just* new mail.
>
> This is not as easy at it sounds. At least (unfortunately) not without
> full parsing with mbox which is bad. For maildir you'd have to walk the
> cur/ subdirectory which can be huge and or painfully slow with a slow
> FS. "Just new mail" is well defined so that checking folders is really
> cheap.
Is this something perhaps that could be added to header_cache without
so much overhead?
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