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Re: IMAP Folder Browser

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On Sunday, February  3 at 01:37 PM, quoth Arthur Dent:
> I have looked at the Mutt manual, and man muttrc, but I cannot see 
> however any way to customise the view when in the folder browser. 

You were right the first time, it's $folder_format. Unfortunately, 
many of the printf sequences there don't mean anything when applied to 
IMAP, so mutt just ignores them.

     %C -> still works
     %d -> ignored (hard to calculate quickly with IMAP)
     %f -> still works
     %F -> becomes the string "IMAP  " or "IMAP +"
     %g -> ignored (does not apply without a filesystem)
     %l -> ignored (does not apply without a filesystem)
     %N -> finicky (I think it only works with cyrus IMAP)
     %s -> ignored (hard to calculate quickly with IMAP)
     %t -> still works
     %u -> ignored (does not apply without a filesystem)

> There is no indication of the number of new messages (or indeed if 
> there are new messages at all) or any other useful information.

There's no way to indicate the *number* of new messages even when 
you're not using IMAP, unfortunately. But %N should work in some 
cases. I forget why this is so finicky, but it has something to do 
with exactly how you calculate this about a folder in IMAP. Ask 
Brendan Cully for details.

As for "other useful information", what are you after?

~Kyle
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