Unread email count in Incoming folders

I am using alpine 1.10 and I was wondering if there is a way to show
the number of unread emails in the Incoming folders of my IMAP
account.
Today i see INBOX with (n/m) is there a way to see (n/u/m) or (u/m)
where u is the number of unread mails.

Thanks,
Praveen

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, bunchofmails@gmail.com wrote:

> I am using alpine 1.10 and I was wondering if there is a way to show
> the number of unread emails in the Incoming folders of my IMAP
> account.
> Today i see INBOX with (n/m) is there a way to see (n/u/m) or (u/m)
> where u is the number of unread mails.
>
> Thanks,
> Praveen

Not exactly, but the help text this feature may be helpful.


FEATURE: Incoming Checking Uses Recent

This option has no effect unless the feature Enable Incoming Folders
Checking is set, which in turn has no effect unless "Incoming Folders"
is set.

When incoming folder checking is turned on the default is to display the
number of unseen messages in each folder. More precisely, it is the number
of undeleted unseen messages. Using this option you may display the number
of recent messages instead of the number of unseen messages. A message is
only counted as recent if this is the first session to see it, so the
recent count might be less than the unseen count. The difference between
the two would be accounted for by the unseen messages in the folder which
were there previously but have not been looked at yet.

If you simultaneously run more than one email client at a time (for
example, you run more than one Alpine in parallel) then turning this
feature on can cause some confusion. The confusion stems from the fact
that each message is only considered to be recent in one session. That
means that the counts of new messages may be different in the two
Alpines running side by side, because each incoming message will only
be counted as recent in one of the two sessions.

You may also display the total number of messages in each folder by using
the Incoming Checking Includes Total option.

On Aug 20, 11:45 am, Steve Hubert <hub...@washington.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, bunchofma...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I am using alpine 1.10 and I was wondering if there is a way to show
> > the number of unread emails in the Incoming folders of my IMAP
> > account.
> > Today i see INBOX with (n/m) is there a way to see (n/u/m) or (u/m)
> > where u is the number of unread mails.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Praveen
>
> Not exactly, but the help text this feature may be helpful.
>
> FEATURE: Incoming Checking Uses Recent
>
> This option has no effect unless the feature Enable Incoming Folders
> Checking is set, which in turn has no effect unless "Incoming Folders"
> is set.
>
> When incoming folder checking is turned on the default is to display the
> number of unseen messages in each folder. More precisely, it is the number
> of undeleted unseen messages. Using this option you may display the number
> of recent messages instead of the number of unseen messages. A message is
> only counted as recent if this is the first session to see it, so the
> recent count might be less than the unseen count. The difference between
> the two would be accounted for by the unseen messages in the folder which
> were there previously but have not been looked at yet.
>
> If you simultaneously run more than one email client at a time (for
> example, you run more than one Alpine in parallel) then turning this
> feature on can cause some confusion. The confusion stems from the fact
> that each message is only considered to be recent in one session. That
> means that the counts of new messages may be different in the two
> Alpines running side by side, because each incoming message will only
> be counted as recent in one of the two sessions.
>
> You may also display the total number of messages in each folder by using
> the Incoming Checking Includes Total option.

Well, I think I found what I wanted. I took out the "incoming includes
recent" and "incoming includes total" and I get the number of unread
messages. Well, for most part this was what I needed. I dont have the
total number of messages, which is fine by me..

Thanks.