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Re: HOWTO: remember place in folder browser, imap folder stats



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On Tuesday, April  3 at 01:55 PM, quoth Charles Shannon Hendrix:
>1)
>
>I would like mutt to remember where I am when browsing folders, so that
>when I exit a folder, I don't have to start at the top of the list and
>scroll down over and over.

There's a patch that provides that functionality (there's no simple 
way to do it via configuration alone). I forget the name of the patch, 
though... It should be in the mailing list archives somewhere 
(sorry!).

>2)
>
>When I'm browsing my imap folders, mutt shows the list of folders, but
>doesn't tell me if there are any messages in them or not. Is there a
>setting to make it show the message count, a flag to show something
>is new, etc? Combined with problem number 1 above, it makes browsing
>through my email a chore. I split my mail into folders for lists,
>administration, etc, so I have at least 20 of them at any one time.

That's true not just of mutt's IMAP browser, but of all of its 
browsers. The relevant format string ($folder_format) can only 
contain:

     - current file number (%C)
     - modification time (%d) (not in IMAP)
     - filename (%f)
     - permissions (%F) (used as a directory indication in IMAP)
     - group/GID (%g) (not in IMAP)
     - number of hard links (%l) (not in IMAP)
     - does it contain new mail (%N) (not in IMAP)
     - size (%s) (not in IMAP)
     - tagged status (%t) (not in IMAP)
     - owner (%u) (not in IMAP)

That the browser isn't more helpful is a common complaint.

~Kyle
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