Re: atime/mtime
Hi,
* Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * 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?
Maybe. But that'd work only while you use mutt to mark mails as old, as
soon as another tool comes into play it's get unreliable (e.g. unison).
Rocco