Subject: Re: New Messages/Total Messages

From: James Cummings <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:10:01 +0000 (GMT)

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Bob Holtzman wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Bob Holtzman wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, James Cummings wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Is there a way on the mail folders screen to display how many
> > > messages (new / total) a folder contains?
> > >
> > > I filter some incoming messages from mailing lists to
> > > folders without me even seeing them in my inbox.  So I don't
> > > sometimes notice some of the low traffic lists have had a new
> > > message until I check the folder.  Is there any way to turn on
> > > the display of such information, or is it impossible?
> >
> > man mailstat
>
> Whoops! I just discovered there is no man page for mailstat even though it
> is on my system. Google, however lists a man page on:
>
> annys.eines.info/cgi-bin/man/man2html?mailstat
>
> or just type in mailstat and stand back.

Um, no.  You seem to misunderstand what I want.  I want to get a display
of which folders (which receive the mail after pine is loaded and hence
has a chance to get it) have new mail.  I don't want to analyse the
mail logs themselves outside of pine.  Since the mail isn't even on
this system, but got through IMAP I'm not sure that mailstat would
help.  In any case, the mail arrival statistic don't know anything
about my pine filters.

Currently I get a list inside my mailing-list folder of something like

    AWAD
    cfp
    cocoon-users
    eXist
    genealogyXML
    gramps
    humanist
    humbul
    jiscmail
    oucs-announce
    oucs-courses
    oucs-discuss
    oucs-internal
    oucs-wing-preview
    oxirc
    oxlug
    pine-info
    rts-discuss
    saxon
    tei
    tei-authoring
    tei-presentation-tools
    xml-hack
    xsl

(With many others I might not want you to know about).  What I'd like
to get is something like:

    AWAD  			(10 New 150 Total)
    cfp 			(25 New 200 Total)
    cocoon-users 		(0 New 150 Total)
    eXist 			(2 New 10 Total)
    genealogyXML 		(0 New 150 Total)
    gramps 			(0 New 140 Total)
    humanist 			(20 New 150 Total)
    humbul 			(0 New 150 Total)
    jiscmail 			(10 New 120 Total)
    oucs-announce 		(0 New 150 Total)
    oucs-courses 		(0 New 150 Total)
    oucs-discuss 		(5 New 350 Total)
    oucs-internal 		(0 New 150 Total)
    oucs-wing-preview 		(0 New 150 Total)
    oxirc 			(0 New 150 Total)
    oxlug 			(10 New 350 Total)
    pine-info 			(1 New 100 Total)
    rts-discuss 		(0 New 150 Total)
    saxon 			(0 New 150 Total)
    tei 			(3 New 50 Total)
    tei-authoring 		(0 New 150 Total)
    tei-presentation-tools 	(0 New 150 Total)
    xml-hack 			(0 New 150 Total)
    xsl				(250 New 590 Total)

Or something similar.  Perhaps even with the option of colorising
those folders or displays with new mail.

Now, Steve, or someone, will probably tell me that this is impossible,
especially over IMAP since it will have to read in the stats for each
sub-folder when it loads a folder.  This would, of course, have a
performance hit, but it is something I'd be willing to accept. I
believe one can get this in other clients like mutt (but I can't
swear to that since I only use pine ;-) ).

I'm just asking if there is a way of doing this already (from
within pine) or if pine would consider it for future versions.

-James
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Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, [email-masked]

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From: Bob Holtzman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:03:18 -0700 (MST)

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, James Cummings wrote:

> has a chance to get it) have new mail. 

That,s exactly what mailstat does.
 
> I don't want to analyse the mail logs themselves outside of pine.  

You don't have to. Mailstat displays  a list of folders with new mail 
together with the number of new messages in each.

> Since the mail isn't even onthis system, but got through IMAP I'm 
> not sure that mailstat would help.  In any case, the mail arrival 
> statistic don't know anything about my pine filters.

Mailstat only works with procmail so I guess your search goes on. Sorry.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
 ......check the price of the beer!"