Re: Reliably detecting/counting new mail. WAS:[Re: Default mailbox display? [partially solved]]

2001-01-23 Thread Dave Pearson
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:30:57AM +0100, Heinrich Langos wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:53:44PM +, Dave Pearson wrote: > > > With an attitude like that it's not surprising that you're confused > > about what I've been saying. Read what I've actually said, look for the > > reasonable reas

Re: Reliably detecting/counting new mail. WAS:[Re: Default mailbox display? [partially solved]]

2001-01-23 Thread Heinrich Langos
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:53:44PM +, Dave Pearson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:16:25PM +0100, Heinrich Langos wrote: > > > Dave, you may stop reading. The rest will only bother you and further > > waste your time. > > With an attitude like that it's not surprising that you're confuse

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-22 Thread David Pippenger
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:56:23PM -0800, David T-G wrote: > Daniel -- > > ...and then Daniel Freedman said... > % > % My mutt is now at 1.0.1i, and I'll try to convince the sysadmin to > % upgrade to 1.25. Could this version difference affect my not seeing > > Well, you could always grab the

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-22 Thread David T-G
Daniel -- ...and then Daniel Freedman said... % % My mutt is now at 1.0.1i, and I'll try to convince the sysadmin to % upgrade to 1.25. Could this version difference affect my not seeing Well, you could always grab the source and build it yourself; the only special program is mutt_dotlock, and

Re: Reliably detecting/counting new mail. WAS:[Re: Default mailbox display? [partially solved]]

2001-01-22 Thread Dave Pearson
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:16:25PM +0100, Heinrich Langos wrote: > Dave, you may stop reading. The rest will only bother you and further > waste your time. With an attitude like that it's not surprising that you're confused about what I've been saying. Read what I've actually said, look for the

Reliably detecting/counting new mail. WAS:[Re: Default mailbox display? [partially solved]]

2001-01-22 Thread Heinrich Langos
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:10:46PM +, Dave Pearson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:34:03PM +0100, Heinrich Langos wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:07:58PM +, Dave Pearson wrote: > [...] > > it's not only me who wants mutt to behave that way, i guess. if it was not > > the inten

Re: Default mailbox display? [partially solved]

2001-01-22 Thread Dave Pearson
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:34:03PM +0100, Heinrich Langos wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:07:58PM +, Dave Pearson wrote: > > > It would appear that we have different definitions of "accessed" and > > "modified". My copy of mutt shows me when an mbox has been modified, not > > when it has

Re: Default mailbox display? [partially solved]

2001-01-22 Thread Heinrich Langos
first for the important part: while reading the source to find a place to put Brandon Long's "folder count" patch. i've found a configure switch named "--enable-buffy-size" that seems to solve the detection issue. i only browsed through the source since it was quite late, but it seems to read

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-22 Thread Dave Pearson
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:37:09AM +0100, Axel Bichler wrote: > Hi Dave! > > > that's more constructive than a self-confessed "uppish tone". It would > > seem you've decided to do that so I don't really see a problem or a need > > for such a tone. > > On the other hand, meticulously insisting on

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-21 Thread Axel Bichler
Hi Dave! On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Dave Pearson wrote: > > Obviously the best method of dealing with this is to implement a solution, Ack. But before reinventing something, it seems always advisible to check if there's alreay a solution. Finally, this can be accomplished by a discussing the problem

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-21 Thread Dave Pearson
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:57:38PM +0100, Axel Bichler wrote: > No, not necessarily. Mutt could save the filesizes. If the size has > changed, new mail has arrived. Counting new mails could be pretty fast, if > the program would skip the known part (old size) of the mbox file and > parse the file

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-21 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001, Dave Pearson wrote: > Yes it does. > > > to quote the docs: > > --- > > Note: new mail is detected by comparing the last modification time to > > the last access time. Utilities like biff or frm or any other program > > which accesses the mailbox might cause Mutt to

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-21 Thread Dave Pearson
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:44:54PM +0100, Heinrich Langos wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:59:22PM +, Dave Pearson wrote: > > > Please don't suggest that I'm defending a weakness, I'm not. I am > > pointing out that it does what it says in the documentation. It points > > out it's own weakn

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-21 Thread Axel Bichler
Hi Dirk! On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Dirk Ruediger wrote: > > Mail/mutt-users [Msgs:413 New:18 1.1M] > > Mail/sf/vuln-dev [Msgs:141478K] > > Mail/nymip [Msgs:54 368K] > > > > now wouldn't that be nice ? > > This implies that mutt scans all folders with new mail (at

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-21 Thread Axel Bichler
Hi Heinrich! On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Heinrich Langos wrote: > how about this ? > > Mail/mutt-users [Msgs:413 New:18 1.1M] > Mail/sf/vuln-dev [Msgs:141478K] > Mail/nymip [Msgs:54 368K] > > now wouldn't that be nice ? There's a patch available on Brandon Long's

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-21 Thread Heinrich Langos
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:59:22PM +, Dave Pearson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:40:03PM +0100, Heinrich Langos wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:05:01PM +, Dave Pearson wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:24:40PM +0100, Heinrich Langos wrote: > > > > > > > the problem with "

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-21 Thread Dave Pearson
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:40:03PM +0100, Heinrich Langos wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:05:01PM +, Dave Pearson wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:24:40PM +0100, Heinrich Langos wrote: > > > > > the problem with "-y" is that it simply doesn't work reliably. > > > > Yes it does. > >

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-21 Thread Heinrich Langos
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:23:53PM +0100, Martin Schweizer wrote: > Hello Heinrich > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:24:40PM +0100 Heinrich Langos wrote: > > > > One thing that I think would help not only me, but tons of others is > > > > something like this: > > > > > > > > mailbox 1 3 n

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-21 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Heinrich On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:24:40PM +0100 Heinrich Langos wrote: > > > One thing that I think would help not only me, but tons of others is > > > something like this: > > > > > > mailbox 1 3 new messages > > > mailbox 2 12 new messages > > > mailbox 3 8

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-21 Thread Pedro Melo
Hi! Ok, the attached script is waht I use... I use it everyday, but you probably need to change stuff to make it work. *It only works with Maildir folders* and it has a four or five commands (all undocumented :) commands are: new (show only folders with new messages) all (show all

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-20 Thread Heinrich Langos
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:05:01PM +, Dave Pearson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:24:40PM +0100, Heinrich Langos wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:27:53AM +, Dave Pearson wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:01:42PM -0800, Trae McCombs wrote: > > > > > > > mailbox 1

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-19 Thread Wilhelm Wienemann
Hello Heinrich! On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Heinrich Langos wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:27:53AM +, Dave Pearson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:01:42PM -0800, Trae McCombs wrote: > > > > > One thing that I think would help not only me, but tons of others is > > > something like this:

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-19 Thread Dirk Ruediger
Hi Heinrich, > > > One thing that I think would help not only me, but tons of others is > > > something like this: > > > > > > mailbox 1 3 new messages > > > mailbox 2 12 new messages > > > mailbox 3 8 new messages > > how about this ? > > Mail/mutt-users [Msgs:4

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-19 Thread Dave Pearson
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:24:40PM +0100, Heinrich Langos wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:27:53AM +, Dave Pearson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:01:42PM -0800, Trae McCombs wrote: > > > > > mailbox 1 3 new messages > > > mailbox 2 12 new messages > > > mailbox 3

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-19 Thread Heinrich Langos
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:27:53AM +, Dave Pearson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:01:42PM -0800, Trae McCombs wrote: > > > One thing that I think would help not only me, but tons of others is > > something like this: > > > > mailbox 1 3 new messages > > mailbox 2 12 n

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-19 Thread Christoph Bugel
I also wanted to use my arrow keys to navigate through folders. (like I did in pine.) what I have now is: macro index "?" this binds the key to get you to the change-folder menu, f you are in the message index. (I think you need the mailboxes command to tell mutt which folders you have) also

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-19 Thread Dave Pearson
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:01:42PM -0800, Trae McCombs wrote: > One thing that I think would help not only me, but tons of others is > something like this: > > mailbox 1 3 new messages > mailbox 2 12 new messages > mailbox 3 8 new messages > > > Where you had the "

Re: Default mailbox display?

2001-01-18 Thread Gary Johnson
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:01:42PM -0800, Trae McCombs wrote: > I have procmail setup, and that's great, but I hate having to change into > the mailboxes to see if there is anything new in those mailboxes. Maybe I'm not understanding your question, but how about just c That lists your mail

Default mailbox display?

2001-01-18 Thread Trae McCombs
Hey gang, Sorry to bug *. I have a question that has long plagued me with using Mutt. I've always had to have everything come to one mailbox, and then simply leave everything in one huge archive. I have procmail setup, and that's great, but I hate having to change into the mailboxes to see if