On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Philip Mak wrote: > Wouldn't it be relatively easy to patch mutt so that it displays bytes > instead of lines? In a Maildir, it only takes a simple stat() operation to > find the size of a message. I'm more used to seeing bytes anyway since I > come from using pine...
Never mind, I figured it out. Putting this in the .muttrc file makes mutt display bytes instead of lines: set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4c) %s" I think this is the easiest solution to the Maildir lines problem, assuming that the user doesn't mind seeing bytes instead.