Enable email counter while getting emails

[jman]

Hi,

when I download many emails I see a fixed message with an ASCII spinner in the modeline:

[mu4e] Retrieving mail... \|/-

I was looking into enabling a progress counter, especially useful when the a POP3 download is
long. Example:

[mu4e] Retrieving mail... 09/20

The good news is that mu4e uses `make-progress-reporter` from the subr.el package which optionally
takes additional parameters to build such counter.
Before diving into the intricacies of `mu4e--update-mail-and-index-real`, I wonder how complicated
would that be? Does it depend on what is run with `mu4e-get-mail-command`?. Has anyone already tried
that?

Thanks.

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

You'd have to extract the numbers from the output of the tool you are
using for downloading (fetchmail, mbsync, offlineimap, ...), assuming
they provide that output, and then somehow tell mu4e about it.

Kind regards,
Dirk.

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