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Re: How to tell if a maildir has mail in it?



On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:26:02PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On Tuesday 2007-02-20 13:14:21 +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> > I think this is one of my major problems with Maildir.
> > 
> > How do you tell whether a maildir mailbox has mail in it without
> > actually opening it?  If it was an mbox you'd see the size which,
> > amazingly enough, is zero if it's empty.  But with a maildir box all
> > you see is the directory size which tells you nothing about whether
> > there's anything in it.
> > 
> > There's the 'N' flag indicating new mail but nothing to indicate the
> > presence of old mail (or is there?).
> > 
> 
> I recently asked for the same thing.  Unfortunately AFAIK actually
> there is no way to achieve that with mutt, but since it seems to be a
> reasonable request (at least two users asking for it) there is hope to
> see it implemented if we file it as a wish-list.
> 
OK, where's the wish-list, is it on the wiki?

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Chris Green