al-skel/home/.config/awesome/vicious/widgets/mboxc.lua

---------------------------------------------------
-- Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2
--  * (c) 2010, Adrian C. <anrxc@sysphere.org>
---------------------------------------------------

-- {{{ Grab environment
local io = { open = io.open }
local setmetatable = setmetatable
local string = { find = string.find }
-- }}}


-- Mboxc: provides the count of total, old and new messages in mbox files
-- vicious.widgets.mboxc
local mboxc = {}


-- {{{ Mbox count widget type
local function worker(format, warg)
  if not warg then return end

  -- Initialize counters
  local count = { old = 0, total = 0, new = 0 }

  -- Get data from mbox files
  for i=1, #warg do
    local f = io.open(warg[i])

    while true do
      -- Read the mbox line by line, if we are going to read
      -- some *HUGE* folders then switch to reading chunks
      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 count.total = count.total + 1 end

      -- Read messages have the Status header
      local _, status = string.find(lines, "^Status:[%s]RO$")
      if status ~= nil then count.old = count.old + 1 end

      -- Skip the folder internal data
      local _, int = string.find(lines, "^Subject:[%s].*FOLDER[%s]INTERNAL[%s]DATA")
      if int ~= nil then count.total = count.total - 1 end
    end
    f:close()
  end

  -- Substract total from old to get the new count
  count.new = count.total - count.old

  return {count.total, count.old, count.new}
end
-- }}}

return setmetatable(mboxc, { __call = function(_, ...) return worker(...) end })