Subject: mail folder view by size

From: Lawrence Absha III <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 11:19:52 -0400 (EDT)

I cab't recall if this has been mentioned before, but I would like to be 
able to list mail folders by size, not just by alpha. I know there have 
been requests for showing the number of messages of one type or another in a 
folder, but I'm wondering if 1) this capability will be added to pine, or 
2) someone knows how to add that capability. 

thanx,
shy

P.S. Showing the number of messages in a folder would probably be roughly 
the same thing, but also harder to implement, I would guess.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 16:18:17 -0700 (PDT)

Lawrence,

Unfortunately there is too much overhead in checking the size of remote
folders to be practical.  Showing the number of messages is actually
easier to implement, since the primitives exist in IMAP/c-client to do
this easily.  It still entails a considerable amount of overhead though... 

Thanks for the suggestions!

--DLM

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