On 24.06.15 09:00, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > When there are too many folders with new mail, the buffy notification > mechanism truncates the list and replaces the rest with "...". But not > all folders are equally important, and it so happens that for me the > folders that make it to the visible list are always the least important > ones :( > > So, is there a way to control or influence the order so the important > folders come first, and avoid being chopped off the list?
The "mailboxes" list sets priority. Not only does it set the order in which mailboxes with new mail are offered as default for a 'c', it also determines the ordering of the buffy list, perhaps because it is the same. Here are the results of a quick test: Initially, there was mail in only one lower priority mailbox: =gcc-patches After I sent a mail to myself, a post to binutils also arrived, and I pressed '.' to have an immediate display: New mail in /var/spool/mail/erik, =binutils_u That's the _newest_ mail, excluding the stale new mail from the prior report, AIUI. However, pressing '.' again gives: New mail in /var/spool/mail/erik, =gcc-patches, =binutils_u Now the report is complete and prioritised. That convenient two-level reporting does admittedly not appear to be documented in the manual. Erik -- manual, n.: A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others. - Ray Simard
