vicious/mboxc.lua

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-- Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2
-- * Copyright (C) 2009 Adrian C. <anrxc_sysphere_org>
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-- {{{ Grab environment
local io = { open = io.open }
local string = { find = string.find }
-- }}}
-- Mboxc: provides the count of total, old and new messages in a mbox
module("vicious.mboxc")
-- {{{ Mbox count widget type
function worker(format, mbox)
-- Initialise counters
local old = 0
local total = 0
-- Open the mbox
--
-- If we had LuaFileSystem we could check the mtime and size of
-- the file and if they didn't change since the last read we could
-- return the old, cached, count. However, we didn't rely on extra
-- libraries to this point so we won't start now.
local f = io.open(mbox)
while true do
-- Read the mbox line by line, if we are going to read some
-- *HUGE* folders then switch to reading chunks. It's why we are
-- not reading the whole file at once in the first place.
local lines = f:read("*line")
if not lines then break end
-- Find all messages
-- * http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html
local _, from = string.find(lines, "^From[%s]")
if from ~= nil then total = total + 1 end
-- Read messages have the Status header
local _, status = string.find(lines, "^Status:[%s]RO$")
if status ~= nil then old = old + 1 end
-- Skip the folder internal data
local _, intdata = string.find(lines, "^Subject:[%s].*FOLDER[%s]INTERNAL[%s]DATA")
if intdata ~= nil then total = total -1 end
end
f:close()
-- Substract total from old to get the new count
local new = total - old
return {total, old, new}
end
-- }}}