On 26Sep2020 20:29, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
>On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 01:13:11PM -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote:
>> That's most likely a "last edited" date. Adding flags or labels to a
>> message would have reset that time as well. These directories were last
>> edited on the date you created them, so not much is going to change
>> that.
But if it reported this for the new and cur subdirs if could be useful.
Very dependent on the file browser of course.
Setting flags on maildir items renames then, so the directory's mod time
will get a bump. Editing labels (within mutt) is editing a message, and
in mutt that is done by making a new modified file and marking the old
one deleted, so that too would bump the directory mod time.
[...]
>They're on a fast SSD on the same system as mutt is running on so
>'very expensive' is probably not an issue.
Hmm. On a fast SSD here:
[~/mail/python]fleet2*> time du -sh
1.4G .
du -sh 0.04s user 1.44s system 34% cpu 4.275 total
so over 4s. Admittedly I went out of my way to pick a big maildir.
[...]
>> I'd recommend using a "maildir browser" which knows how to interpret
>> the
>> information you're looking for (and which mutt is very good at).
>>
>?? I'm a bit lost here, you recommend a "maildir browser" and say "...
>which mutt is very good at", so is mutt a maildir browser?
Just anything which knows it is browsing maildirs. Since they have a
little directory hierarchy underneath them a plain file browser won't
tell you much from outside unless you can extend the file browser.
Ben's suggestion of mutt is because mutt knows about maildirs, so its
browse-folders facility has some of the functionality you seek.
Personally I rarely look at my mail folders from a file browser. My mail
filer does the delivery, and my ruleset causes alerts to pop up if
something important arrives.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
