Re: Anyway to scan IMAP messages to show sizes?
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 02:51:49PM +0200, René Clerc wrote:
> * Chris Green <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> [29-06-2004 14:29]:
>
> > When in the index view of an IMAP folder only the sizes of messages
> > one has read are shown - not unreasonable since sizes aren't known
> > until the message is read and one doesn't want to read all the
> > messages every time one opens the folder.
>
> That's probably (I'm guessing here), because your $index_format contains
> a '%l' (or a '%4l'). This tells mutt to read the Lines: header from the
> message, and print the number of lines. I think you don't receive these
> headers from your IMAP server.
>
Ah, yes, it was a quick hack of an existing muttrc file used for
ordinary mailboxes.
> > However, is there a way to force reading of all the messages so the
> > sizes are shown? This would be very useful when looking for messages
> > with large attachments which can then be deleted to save space.
>
> Hehe, this sounds funny: force to read all the messages (i.e. the
> entire mailbox) so you can know how large each message is. That
> shouldn't be necessary..
>
> If you change your index_format to contain a %c, the total message size
> will show up in the index. Note that this still doesn't tell you
> anything about attachments, but it does tell you how large the message
> as a whole is..
>
Excellent, thanks, works perfectly. Now we can see where all that
quota is being used up.
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)