On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 05:04:03PM +0000, isdtor wrote:
I've been wondering for a while whether it is possible to completely
save a mailbox (i.e. mbox) in exactly its current state, deleted
messages and all, without actually purging deleted messages? In other
words, I would like to preserve the "Deleted" flag for a message,
maybe through the Status: header, so that the next time I open mutt,
the "Deleted" messages are still present and marked "Deleted".
Can this be achieved via configuration, or is anyone aware of a patch?
I've seen references to one or more patches that use a trash folder,
but that's not what I'm looking for.
The mbox format is the only one that can't store deleted messages.
If you really need this feature, you will need to switch to
another format, such as maildir.
It is not technically impossible for this feature to be
implemented, but historically the mbox format did not support this
feature, and there is no standard `Status:' flag for it.
