[Users] Size of each sub-dirs ?

[Alain Coulais]

Le Thu, 6 Oct 2022 18:53:58 +0200,
Norwid Behrnd via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> a écrit :

> On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 15:49:56 +0200
> Alain Coulais <alain.coulais at obspm.fr> wrote:
> 
> > I have several emails accounts (IMAP) not locally saved 
> > (most of my mails stay on servers)
> > 
> > To have the equivalent of "tree"/"du"/"find*" ...  ... I have to kindly ask
> > to the admin of the remote mail server where I have no access via ssh
> > and I cannot ask too frequently !
> >   
> 
> @Alain  Inside CM with the standard view, I'm only aware about the indicator
> between the listed messages and the individual one (an example is attached).
> It mentions the current sub-folder (not the mail ID), number & volume of the
> selected messages; and a total about all messages in the current folder.  This
> is manual and doesn't scale well (though in each folder one may sort messages
> by size, too.)
> 

YES ! (see PJ)
Thanks you ! In fact I never realized that ! 
(that I can apply to all messages !)

And yes I will consider your other suggestions, more technical !

A.

> It still is worth to check the level of restraints to access the mail servers.
> In case you have /read-only/ access (a sub set of permissions) via
> ssh/ssh-2/sfpt, e.g. filezilla[1] (platform agnostic, polyglot[2]) might
> reach out for the data, including a determination of their size[3] without
> actually downloading the data to a local storage. /Read-only/ is a pattern
> seen e.g., for NMR spectrometers; a few colleagues record the data, and many
> members of multiple groups of a department read and process the data -- but
> only locally.
> 
> Perhaps similar to an os.walk() across directories, the Python plugin[4] might
> crawl through the emails to compile and summarize the data relevant for you,
> but this is mere speculation.
> 
> Norwid
> 
> [1] https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/
> [2] https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/FileZilla_Client_Tutorial_(fr)
> [3] https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Calculate_directory_size
> 
> [4] https://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=python

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