-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, January 14 at 05:59 PM, quoth Francis Moreau: >On Jan 14, 2008 5:59 PM, John Velman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This works for me ( in .muttrc). >> >> _________ >> >> # poor mans trash > >Honestly I'm wondering what's wrong with Trash. > >It seems that Trash is not really welcome in Mutt.
By what metric? The fact that support for it isn't built-in (added via two simple hooks or via the trash patch linked on the mutt webpage: http://cedricduval.free.fr/mutt/patches/#trash) or are you seeing some sort of wider hostility to the existence of folders with that name? One way of understanding mutt's approach to email is as an email "viewer". Mutt, given a folder, does its level best to manage that folder of email. Mutt is not targetted to managing a large collection of many folders of email; it has no support for searching multiple mailboxes at the same time, displaying messages from multiple mailboxes, displaying messages from multiple accounts, automatically transferring messages from an "INBOX" to other folders when you open the INBOX, etc. When viewing the contents of a folder, mutt makes *no* assumptions about the existence of ANY other folder or account. In that sense, mutt approaches mail very differently from other email applications: mutt does it on a folder-by-folder basis, while other applications (e.g. Thunderbird) approach it on an account-by-account basis. When you think about email on an account-by-account basis, things like folders with special purposes makes more sense. Thus, in other applications, "delete means move to the account's Trash folder" makes sense, while in mutt "delete means mark the message as deleted" makes more sense (why would mutt assume that you have (or should have) a special folder for deleted messages? By moving the message to a Trash folder, you are losing the information about where it came from.). However, you can easily make mutt behave more like an "email is an account" program by using hooks and other configuration features, and if that isn't enough, you can even patch mutt to add the functionality in a form you find personally palatable. What the trash patch does can be replicated by modifying your configuration, so there is no strong movement among the development group to add it to the tree, because that is essentially bloat (why add a second way of doing the same thing?). ~Kyle - -- Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound. -- Albert Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iD8DBQFHi5vXBkIOoMqOI14RAvcmAJ9Ort3atVM8aqlDUb12k3a+3X+SOwCfadlU OXPJFyeC9qQ8XEYgBNinmRA= =6PNi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
