Re: delete only undeleted messages?
* Ed Blackman e...@edgewood.to [2014-02-26 20:46]: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:45:00PM +0100, Peter P. wrote: folder-hook . 'macro pager d save-message=Trash \r [...] Is there a way to incoorporate the status/flag of a message as conditional for the above key binding to only allow saving to trash if the message is not marked as 'deleted'? You might want to investigate the 'trash' patch, which is commonly already applied to packaged versions of mutt. http://cedricduval.free.fr/mutt/patches/#trash Thanks Ed! It seems my version of mutt (1.5.21) has the features/trash-folder compiled in, yet I didn't yet set the respective variable in the config file. Will test that and get back to this list if there is still questions open. Thank you also for hacking out the option below, which seems very cool as well! best, Peter If you don't have the patch and don't want to build mutt to apply it, there are not a lot of good options. The main problem is there's no way I know of to do general conditional logic (if message isn't marked as deleted, save to trash, otherwise do nothing) directly in a macro. The only conditional logic I know of is tag-prefix-cond, but I can't think of a way to use that for your end. You can use backticks to move some of the conditional logic to a shell script. You would need a macro that would pipe a message to save it in a known location, then use :push with backticks to call a program that read the email in that location, then either emitted the command to save the message or a noop depending on whether the email's Message-Id was in a cache. It would look something like this: macro index d 'pipe-messagecat /tmp/message.txtenter\ :push `/path/to/script.sh`enter' Save to trash folder /path/to/script.sh would: 1) read /tmp/message.txt and extract the Message-Id 2) check to see if the Message-Id was in the cache 3) if not, print 'save-message=Trashenterenter' and add the Id to the cache If the message was in the cache, the script would do nothing, causing the macro to do nothing further. Pretty convoluted, and race-prone since you have to save the message in a fixed location. There might be further tricks to remove that particular limitation, but I've procrastinated enough today. -- Ed Blackman Thanks Ed
Re: delete only undeleted messages?
* Peter P. p8...@aol.com [02-26-14 10:48]: Hi! I have noticed that I can delete (save to trash folder) the same message over and over again using, folder-hook . 'macro index d save-message=Trash \r folder-hook . 'macro pager d save-message=Trash \r even after it has been marked as deleted. I end up with mutiple accidental copies in the trash this way. Is there a way to incoorporate the status/flag of a message as conditional for the above key binding to only allow saving to trash if the message is not marked as 'deleted'? You need sync-mailbox after the save_to_tash. As long as you remain in the same mailbox, destructive actions aside from editing are not applied until you close, move to another, or sync the mailbox. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.orgopenSUSE Community Memberfacebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.orgPhoto Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535@ http://linuxcounter.net
Re: delete only undeleted messages?
* Patrick Shanahan ptilopt...@gmail.com [2014-02-26 17:23]: * Peter P. p8...@aol.com [02-26-14 10:48]: Hi! I have noticed that I can delete (save to trash folder) the same message over and over again using, folder-hook . 'macro index d save-message=Trash \r folder-hook . 'macro pager d save-message=Trash \r even after it has been marked as deleted. I end up with mutiple accidental copies in the trash this way. Is there a way to incoorporate the status/flag of a message as conditional for the above key binding to only allow saving to trash if the message is not marked as 'deleted'? You need sync-mailbox after the save_to_tash. As long as you remain in the same mailbox, destructive actions aside from editing are not applied until you close, move to another, or sync the mailbox. Thank you for the reply Patrick, I would prefer to not sync/expunge the mailbox after every copy to trash key shortcut. Perhaps there is a way to make key commands aware of a message's flag instead. Thank you again! best, P
Re: delete only undeleted messages?
On Mi, 26 Feb 2014, Peter P. wrote: * Patrick Shanahan ptilopt...@gmail.com [2014-02-26 17:23]: * Peter P. p8...@aol.com [02-26-14 10:48]: Hi! I have noticed that I can delete (save to trash folder) the same message over and over again using, folder-hook . 'macro index d save-message=Trash \r folder-hook . 'macro pager d save-message=Trash \r even after it has been marked as deleted. I end up with mutiple accidental copies in the trash this way. Is there a way to incoorporate the status/flag of a message as conditional for the above key binding to only allow saving to trash if the message is not marked as 'deleted'? You need sync-mailbox after the save_to_tash. As long as you remain in the same mailbox, destructive actions aside from editing are not applied until you close, move to another, or sync the mailbox. Thank you for the reply Patrick, I would prefer to not sync/expunge the mailbox after every copy to trash key shortcut. Perhaps there is a way to make key commands aware of a message's flag instead. I see three possibilities. - Instead of deleting the actual messages you tag them and on a key press, you move all tagged, not-deleted messages to your Archive/Trash folder. Something like this (untested): macro index,pager d tag-pattern!~D~Tentertag-prefix-condsave-messagekill-line=Trashenteruntag-pattern~Aenter 'Delete messages' - Add an folder hook, to delete duplicate messages (something like this): folder-hook =Trash 'push untag-pattern~Aentertag-pattern~=entertag-prefix-conddelete-messageuntag-pattern~Aentersync-mailboxenter' - Use the trash folder patch, that is floating around and even provided in some distributions like Debians mutt-patched, IIRC Best, Christian -- If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.
Re: delete only undeleted messages?
* Christian Brabandt cbli...@256bit.org [2014-02-26 19:45]: On Mi, 26 Feb 2014, Peter P. wrote: * Patrick Shanahan ptilopt...@gmail.com [2014-02-26 17:23]: * Peter P. p8...@aol.com [02-26-14 10:48]: Hi! I have noticed that I can delete (save to trash folder) the same message over and over again using, folder-hook . 'macro index d save-message=Trash \r folder-hook . 'macro pager d save-message=Trash \r even after it has been marked as deleted. I end up with mutiple accidental copies in the trash this way. Is there a way to incoorporate the status/flag of a message as conditional for the above key binding to only allow saving to trash if the message is not marked as 'deleted'? You need sync-mailbox after the save_to_tash. As long as you remain in the same mailbox, destructive actions aside from editing are not applied until you close, move to another, or sync the mailbox. Thank you for the reply Patrick, I would prefer to not sync/expunge the mailbox after every copy to trash key shortcut. Perhaps there is a way to make key commands aware of a message's flag instead. I see three possibilities. - Instead of deleting the actual messages you tag them and on a key press, you move all tagged, not-deleted messages to your Archive/Trash folder. Something like this (untested): macro index,pager d tag-pattern!~D~Tentertag-prefix-condsave-messagekill-line=Trashenteruntag-pattern~Aenter 'Delete messages' - Add an folder hook, to delete duplicate messages (something like this): folder-hook =Trash 'push untag-pattern~Aentertag-pattern~=entertag-prefix-conddelete-messageuntag-pattern~Aentersync-mailboxenter' - Use the trash folder patch, that is floating around and even provided in some distributions like Debians mutt-patched, IIRC Best, Christian -- If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done. Wow, thanks a lot Christian for this precise information! It is greatly appreciated and I am going to look deeper into the solutions you suggest. best, Peter
Re: delete only undeleted messages?
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:45:00PM +0100, Peter P. wrote: folder-hook . 'macro pager d save-message=Trash \r [...] Is there a way to incoorporate the status/flag of a message as conditional for the above key binding to only allow saving to trash if the message is not marked as 'deleted'? You might want to investigate the 'trash' patch, which is commonly already applied to packaged versions of mutt. http://cedricduval.free.fr/mutt/patches/#trash If you don't have the patch and don't want to build mutt to apply it, there are not a lot of good options. The main problem is there's no way I know of to do general conditional logic (if message isn't marked as deleted, save to trash, otherwise do nothing) directly in a macro. The only conditional logic I know of is tag-prefix-cond, but I can't think of a way to use that for your end. You can use backticks to move some of the conditional logic to a shell script. You would need a macro that would pipe a message to save it in a known location, then use :push with backticks to call a program that read the email in that location, then either emitted the command to save the message or a noop depending on whether the email's Message-Id was in a cache. It would look something like this: macro index d 'pipe-messagecat /tmp/message.txtenter\ :push `/path/to/script.sh`enter' Save to trash folder /path/to/script.sh would: 1) read /tmp/message.txt and extract the Message-Id 2) check to see if the Message-Id was in the cache 3) if not, print 'save-message=Trashenterenter' and add the Id to the cache If the message was in the cache, the script would do nothing, causing the macro to do nothing further. Pretty convoluted, and race-prone since you have to save the message in a fixed location. There might be further tricks to remove that particular limitation, but I've procrastinated enough today. -- Ed Blackman
