Philip, et al -- ...and then Philip Mak said... % ... % I think a better way of handling this would be for mutt to remember what % messages were marked as deleted when "$" was pressed. If the user then % confirms the deletion but mutt detects a changed mailbox, it should go % read the mailbox again, then delete any messages that were originally % marked as deleted and are still marked as deleted.
This can't be done, AFAIK, under mbox; when a message is flagged for deletion, you will either purge it with a sync (or a write) or keep it and toss the flag if you exit without changes. As a result, mutt won't ever write a deletion flag back to an mbox file -- and the example of reading a changed mailbox to look for "still marked as deleted" will fail. [Note that one can be there when the file is opened; I procmail in a flag to mark some junk for as it arrives but not throw it away because I want to know that it has come in and sometimes want to read it.] % % I may not be fully aware of any problems in implementing this, though % (maybe my reasoning is flawed somewhere, maybe there's a technical reason % that makes it difficult to implement this, etc.). Other than the mbox example above, I dunno nothin' :-) HTH & HAND & Happy Holidays to all :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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