On 2011-12-12, rj <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been running mutt on a remote ISP via ssh for several years with
> a fully configured muttrc. All of the ISP's servers were recently attacked
> through its shell, and now the admin has separated its mail server from
> everything else. All mail access is now via IMAP.
>
> This has broken several things in my muttrc. I'm slowly going through and
> fixing things, but I'm still a bit unfamiliar with IMAP, so several
> problems linger, though the basic setup is working.
>
> One problem is that where I normally have the number of lines per message
> displayed in the index (i.e., the "76" in the sample index line below),
>
> 74 + 12/11/11 [email protected] 76 Your Order with Amazon.com
>
> I now get the byte number: "3.8K". But when I open the message, view it in
> the pager, then close it, coming back to the index, the byte number has
> changed to the lines number (76), which I'd like to have there all the
> time.
With IMAP there's no way to know the number of lines in a message
until after it's been opened. IOW, you can't have the number of lines
displayed all the time.
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