Displaying multiple unread email counts in the modeline

[FrostyX]

Hello,

I would like to show two, three, or more unread counts in my modeline.
In my case, one for work email, one for personal, and then a couple for high-priority mailing lists.

My mailbox currently has around 800k emails from many mailing lists. A lot of them are unread because they have no importance to me. As a consequence, a single "unread emails count" number doesn't work for me, because it will always be 99+.

I already filed the issue here
iqbalansari/mu4e-alert#39
but MELPA tells me, this is the official repository :-)

[xzz53]

Hi,

You are right, this is the upstream now. :) Your case is valid, but it's quite difficult to implement and will need a major redesign (mainly because of the lack of cooperation from mu4e author; due to that message fetching code is a mess of advices, callbacks and ad-hoc synchronization). I need a few days to consider possible implementations.

Meanwhile, you can tweak your mu4e-alert-interesting-mail-query customization variable to restrict the maildirs mu4e-alert looks into (that's what I do myself; my mu4e-alert-interesting-mail-query is "flag:unread and not flag:trashed and not maildir:/lists/ and not maildir:/promo/ and not maildir:/spam/ and not maildir:/todo/").

[FrostyX]

Thank you very much for the explanation @xzz53.

Meanwhile, you can tweak your mu4e-alert-interesting-mail-query customization variable to restrict the maildirs

That is a nice workaround, thank you :-)
I just finished its configuration and it is good enough for the time being.