John --
...and then John Franklin said...
% On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:28:11AM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
% > Jason Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 14 Jun 2000:
% > > folder to mailbox folder that you aren't asked to delete whenever
% >
% > You mean like "set delete=yes"?
% >
% > > but adding a feature that would let to flush
% >
% > You mean like the sync-mailbox function, by default bound to the $-key?
%
% I've been meaning to poke through the code to try to figure out how to
% add a related feature where an item marked for deletion gets the flag
% set in the on-disk mailbox. I've got a fairly large mailbox that I access
For an mbox file on your disk, the header line "X-Status: D" gets added.
Mor properly put, I suppose, is to say that "D" gets added to the
"X-Status:" header, which is created if necessary (it could already be
there because the message has been marked old, read, or replied to).
Buut that's already in place, so you can't mean that, can you?
% through IMAP. Doing a re-sync and expunging takes a fair bit of time,
% so I tend to mark a bunch of stuff then expunge it all at once.
Makes sense. Do you mark with the 'd' flag, or do you tag along and then
mark the bunch at once?
An IMAP guy is really better suited to tell you this than I, but I believe
that the header changes are made as you make them -- that is, when you
hit the 'd' key to delete, the flag is set on the IMAP box right then.
One of the features of IMAP is that you can mark for deletion and then
*not* expunge, and then come back to the mailbox later and the messages
are still flagged as such. Imagine, therefore, my confusion trying to
figure out your request :-)
% Sometimes, my connection goes down before I get a chance to expunge,
% and have to figure out what I had set to delete all over again.
Is this your IMAP connection or, just because I'm still not quite sure
what you're asking, your telnet connection to a remote shell running
mutt on [it's] local folders? In the latter case, I live and breathe
by iscreen's ability to keep my processes alive and let me hook to it
when I log back in after being kicked off...
%
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