Subject: Suggestion, new messages, status

From: "Andrew B. Sweger" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 00:29:33 -0800 (PST)

I have several Incoming Message Folders, all filled by procmail. 
Presently, I have a small script I wrote that will tell me how many new
messages there are in each folder. I also have a small script that informs
me which folders have new messages since the command prompt was last
displayed (by examining the procmail.log). Unfortunately, that information
is not on the screen when I go into the Folder List and I loose track of
which ones I want to visit. 

I propose that pine use the status line while in the Folder List to 
display the number of unread messages of the highlighted folder while in 
the Incoming Folders portion. This would be a very positive feature for 
an already very successful program. Thank you.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 13:39:10 -0800 (PST)

Andrew,

Our current experimental code includes a command to display the counts of
messages in all of your incoming folders on the folder-list.  It also has a
flag for messages that have arrived since you viewed the index of a folder. 
Unfortunately this command is quite slow at present.  It turns out to be
almost as fast to open each folder in turn, viewing each index... 

Thanks for the suggestion!

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