On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:46:52PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > 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. Ahhhh... Thanks Kyle, that explains a lot. Unfortunately, the main thing I wanted (%N) is the thing that appears not to work for me (Dovecot IMAP running of Fedora 8). Your help has however allowed me to tidy up the folder display somewhat so that I only have the folder number and its name. > As for "other useful information", what are you after? Well, filesize would have been helpful, but this is of trivial importance compared to the new messages flag. Thanks for your help. Much appreciated... AD
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