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Re: What does asterisk mean against a mailbox name?



On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 04:24:46PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Thursday, April 23 at 09:54 PM, quoth Chris G:
> >I'm sure I should be able to find this in the documentation somewhere
> >but finding "*" isn't very productive!  :-)
> >
> >So, what does an asterisk against a mailbox name mean?
> 
> Against?
> 
> ... in what context?
> 
Here's an example of what I mean:-

    -- Mutt: Directory [=Li], File mask: !^\.[^.]
    ->   ../                              Apr 23 21:45   4.0K
         alug*                            Apr 23 21:15   4.2K
         digikam*                         Apr 23 21:15    10K
         fcmod*                           Apr 23 21:15    13K
         ifcdflt                          Apr 23 21:52   4.8K
         ifcmods*                         Apr 23 21:26    26K
         ifcoffer                         Apr 23 21:44   5.0K
         ifcwant*                         Apr 23 22:26    25K
         ixion                            Apr 23 22:12   4.2K
         mutt                             Apr 23 22:25   7.0K
         vile*                            Apr 23 21:15   4.1K
         xm-l                             Apr 23 22:15   6.5K


What do those asterisks indicate?


-- 
Chris Green