* On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 08:46AM -0800 Brendan Cully (bren...@kublai.com) wrote: > On Tuesday, 17 November 2009 at 11:31, Kevin Kobb wrote: > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > >On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:17:36AM -0500, Kevin Kobb wrote: > > Typically, I am doing this for a user. They call and complain because > > the got an offensive email of some type. If I save the message to > > another folder (which I do) it still leaves a copy in the Inbox > > folder with the deleted flag set. > > > > If I do an expunge to get rid of the offensive message, it will also > > expunge all the users messages with the deleted flag set. > > You could also copy all the messages _but_ the target to a temp > folder, then purge, then copy them back. Or tag all deleted messages, > clear the deleted flag, set some other flag (like 'flagged'), delete > the single message, tag the flagged messages, and set them to deleted > but not flagged. The second method might be a bit quicker, but depends > on there not already being flagged messages in the mailbox. I'd go > with the first.
When I played around with that scenario I did what seemed logically and tagged the only message I wanted to delete then limited to ~T Then when I hit $ mutt asked me to delete all messages marked for deletion and while trying that anyways it indeed deleted all messages. Why the hell does mutt do that? Has there been a paradigm shift that I missed? I was under the impression that mutt should ALWAYS operate on VISIBLE messages ONLY. Michael -- "Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX." (By Stephan Zielinski) PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC1A44DD Jabber: init...@amessage.de
