Subject: Enhancing Folder list

From: Samuel Ortiz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 13:48:55 +0100 (CET)

Hi there,

I was trying to get Pine displaying the number of new messages that I have
in each of my folders. Something like : INBOX(3)   lkml(2)...I have a
dozen folders, and it would be really nice if I can directly see which
one i have to open to check new messages. I quickly realized that this
is not possible with the latest version of Pine.
So, I'd like to know if this feature belongs to the Pine TODO list, and is
expected to appear in the next versions.

Thanks in advance for your answers,
Samuel.

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:55:38 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

> [...]

It is on the TODO list (and definitely in the upper half of the list) but
it will not be in the next version. We wish it were there, too.

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Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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From: Samuel Ortiz <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:48:46 +0100 (CET)

> it will not be in the next version. We wish it were there, too.
Good news. Is someone already working on it ? If not, do you mind if I
start looking at it ?

Thanks for your help,
Samuel.

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From: Allen Ziegenfus <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 09:39:26 -0500 (EST)

I'm very interested in this feature as well. I'd be willing to do some of
the work too if need be (but it might be a one person kind of job).

Allen Z

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:28:34 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

> Good news. Is someone already working on it ? If not, do you mind if I

We (at UW) have spent considerable time and energy talking about it and
exploring options but haven't gotten to the point of getting anything at
all into pine. We decided to shelf it and do some other stuff for pine
4.50 instead. Hopefully we'll get back to it after 4.50 settles down.
There have been several attempts over the past few years to do this right.
To get a flavor of what you are dealing with take a look at the Internet
Draft "Simple Notification and Alarm Protocol (SNAP)" by Shapira and Aloni
(draft-shapira-snap-05.txt). Of course, we don't mind if you look at it
but realize that it is a difficult problem.

Steve

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From: Michael Abbott <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:17:30 +0000 (GMT)

> expected to appear in the next versions.

Hear hear!  I also would be very pleased to see this.