On Tuesday 2007-02-20 13:14:21 +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote: > I think this is one of my major problems with Maildir. > > How do you tell whether a maildir mailbox has mail in it without > actually opening it? If it was an mbox you'd see the size which, > amazingly enough, is zero if it's empty. But with a maildir box all > you see is the directory size which tells you nothing about whether > there's anything in it. > > There's the 'N' flag indicating new mail but nothing to indicate the > presence of old mail (or is there?). >
I recently asked for the same thing. Unfortunately AFAIK actually there is no way to achieve that with mutt, but since it seems to be a reasonable request (at least two users asking for it) there is hope to see it implemented if we file it as a wish-list. Cheers -- Employees and their families are not eligible.
