Dear Michael, dear Cameron, * Michael Tatge <tatg...@gmail.com> [2015-07-22 14:17]: > * On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 11:35AM -0400 Peter P. (peterpar...@fastmail.com) > muttered: > > I have bound the 'd' key to move mails to a trash folder, and 'D' to > > move an entire thread to a trash folder: > > > > folder-hook . 'macro index,pager d "<save-message>=INBOX.Trash \r" > > folder-hook . 'macro index,pager D > > "<tag-thread><tag-prefix><save-message>=INBOX.Trash \r" > > > This doesn't prevent me from accidentally moving these messages twice, > > eg when the first mails in a thread are deleted using 'd' (and are > > marked deleted accordingly) with a subsequent use of 'D' the entire > > thread, including the messages that got deleted already, gets saved to > > the trash folder again, causing duplicates. > > You could use the trash folder patch included in most distros. > Then you wouldn't need those macros.
I managed to change to the trash folder patch and have been using it successfully for a week by now. Thank you for suggesting it Michael, and thank you Cameron for your instructions on how to write a godd macro that could indeed do without the above patch and which made me learn a lot. cheers, P
