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    From Daniel@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 20 23:28:07 2024
    Is there a way to have alpine setup to update all folders every certain
    number of minutes and display the number of unreads on the list of
    folders?

    Thanks

    Daniel

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Daniel on Wed Aug 21 09:08:48 2024
    On Tue, 20 Aug 2024, Daniel wrote:

    Is there a way to have alpine setup to update all folders every certain number of minutes and display the number of unreads on the list of
    folders?

    Thanks

    Daniel


    Hello Daniel,

    To the best of my knowledge, this is only possible with incoming folders.
    I've had the same question myself and haven't found a way inherent to
    alpine.

    If you use maildir folders, it is very easy to have a look at the files in
    your maildir folder to determine which ones are new. From there you could
    send notifications, mails etc. about new mail status. But in order to get
    it in the folder view, you probably have to rewrite some code in alpine.

    Best regards,
    Daniel

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  • From Daniel@21:1/5 to nospam@example.net on Thu Aug 22 08:36:50 2024
    D <nospam@example.net> writes:

    On Tue, 20 Aug 2024, Daniel wrote:

    Is there a way to have alpine setup to update all folders every certain
    number of minutes and display the number of unreads on the list of
    folders?

    Thanks

    Daniel


    Hello Daniel,

    To the best of my knowledge, this is only possible with incoming
    folders. I've had the same question myself and haven't found a way
    inherent to alpine.

    If you use maildir folders, it is very easy to have a look at the
    files in your maildir folder to determine which ones are new. From
    there you could send notifications, mails etc. about new mail
    status. But in order to get it in the folder view, you probably have
    to rewrite some code in alpine.

    Best regards,
    Daniel

    I thought so daniel, thanks.

    Seeme like too much work. I sort of like Alpine the way it works and...

    Well, that's all.

    D

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Daniel on Thu Aug 22 09:50:17 2024
    On Thu, 22 Aug 2024, Daniel wrote:

    D <nospam@example.net> writes:

    On Tue, 20 Aug 2024, Daniel wrote:

    Is there a way to have alpine setup to update all folders every certain
    number of minutes and display the number of unreads on the list of
    folders?

    Thanks

    Daniel


    Hello Daniel,

    To the best of my knowledge, this is only possible with incoming
    folders. I've had the same question myself and haven't found a way
    inherent to alpine.

    If you use maildir folders, it is very easy to have a look at the
    files in your maildir folder to determine which ones are new. From
    there you could send notifications, mails etc. about new mail
    status. But in order to get it in the folder view, you probably have
    to rewrite some code in alpine.

    Best regards,
    Daniel

    I thought so daniel, thanks.

    Seeme like too much work. I sort of like Alpine the way it works and...

    Well, that's all.

    D


    I agree with you. I'm very happy to get all the alpine functionality in
    one package and the help files are quite good as well.

    Of course there are things that I miss, and some thing which are a bit
    clunky, but overall, the combination of ease of use, with power features strikes a good balance for me, compared with the other main competitor
    mutt (or neomutt).

    But... the source is there, so I console myself with the thought, that
    _if_ a feature is important enough, in theory, I could always write it
    myself. ;)

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