Hi Gian Piero,

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:32:17PM +0200, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote:

> Mutt 1.6.0-1 is using the sidebar-dotted patch that was abandoned in
> 1.5.22-2 in favor of Gentoo's sidebar-dotpathsep.

Partially, it is an upstream feature now.

> I personally prefer the sidebar-dotpathsep patch because:
> 
> - has a summary listing # of unread/flagged/total messages instead of only
>   unread/total

Flagged should be supported according to docs, I never tried that, though.

> - has configurable mailboxes separator (in my case, the newly reintroduced
>   patch does not correctly display maildirs containing a dot in the name)

Did you try setting sidebar_folderindent? That worked fine here with dotted 
maildirs.

> Anyway, if even the reintroduction of the old patch was intentional, please
> document it in the NEWS.Debian file, noting that 'sidebar_delim_chars' is
> not valid anymore and 'sidebar_shortpath' can be used instead (sort of).

I've added some details in 
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mutt/mutt.git/commit/?id=00fe2d19fa615e25e10f9976a937358a42cd1be7
Could you have a look if that makes sense to you?

Greets
Evgeni

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