mutt loosing D flags

2001-12-29 Thread Philip Mak

I think I did something recently (it had to do with answering no when
mutt asked me whether I wanted to purge deleted messages) that caused mutt
to lose track of which messages had D (Deleted) flags on them.

Does anyone know what I did, and how to avoid doing it again? I think
someone recently said on this mailing list that mutt does not have the
ability of saving D (Deleted) flags.

It seems odd that mutt doesn't support it, since there seems to exist ways
to store these flags (X-Status: D in mbox, or put T flag in filename
in Maildir/cur).




Re: mutt loosing D flags

2001-12-29 Thread David T-G

Philip --

...and then Philip Mak said...
% 
% I think I did something recently (it had to do with answering no when
% mutt asked me whether I wanted to purge deleted messages) that caused mutt
% to lose track of which messages had D (Deleted) flags on them.

That sounds like either you exited instead of quitting or you answered
'no' to an ask-no setting for $delete.


% 
% Does anyone know what I did, and how to avoid doing it again? I think
% someone recently said on this mailing list that mutt does not have the
% ability of saving D (Deleted) flags.

That was probably me, and that's true AFAIK for mbox.


% 
% It seems odd that mutt doesn't support it, since there seems to exist ways
% to store these flags (X-Status: D in mbox, or put T flag in filename
% in Maildir/cur).

I think that the sync code simply needs to be expanded to save a delete
flag but yet not delete the message.  Sounds easy enough; who wants to
write the patch? :-)


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