[sup-talk] Feature suggestion for hooks

[Ismo Puustinen]

Hi,

I have a small script that works as a biff-like new mail indicator. 
The script would need as input the amount of unread mail in the 
inbox. The problem is that the after-poll hook apparently has no 
way of knowing how much unread mail there currenly is -- it only 
knows the number added during this poll. I think that after-poll 
is the only non-interactive place where the number of total unread 
mail might change. Would it be possible to add that number as an 
internal variable to be accessible from the after-poll hook? 

An even better option might be to add these computationally 
intensive operations to an internal API that would be callable from 
the hooks. This way the variables would not need to be computed 
if the hook didn't need them. 

-- 
Ismo Puustinen <ismo at iki.fi>