Excerpts from Chris Parsons's message of Wed Oct 20 02:26:13 -0300 2010: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:52:54 +0100, Daniel Hernández <dan...@degu.cl> > wrote: > > > I started using sup recently. Now I have only one source that is a > > inbox maildir folder. I want to delete some emails from the source > > forever, but when I delete or kill emails they are not really deleted > > from the maildir folder. How can I clean the maildir folder, removing > > deleted or killed emails? > > The design intent of sup is to specifically remove the need to worry about > deleting e-mails. But if you really need to do that then one way might be > to do the following (assuming your machine has the right tools installed). > Doing stuff like this could lose your messages. Info supplied for > education purposes only. Proceed at your own risk!
The reason because I need to delete some emails is that I read emails in several computers. In each computer I have sup installed and I synchronize the maildir with other maildirs using a primary imap server. Thus I like to delete some unimportant emails to reduce the network traffic. I started with this practice using mutt and the wanderlust email client, but I prefer the sup email client. I like the tagging system of sup and its capacity to manage threads. But now I have another problem, because tags are not stored in the maildir and I don't know how to synchronize tags in several computers. > # change to top of the Maildir > cd ~/Mail > # get message id of all files with tag 'deleted' and put in temp file > FL=/tmp/del-filelist > rm -f $FL > for i in `sup-dump | grep deleted | cut -f 1 -d' '`; do grep -l -r $i > ./* >> $FL;done > # delete the files in the file list > for i in `cat $FL`; do rm $i; done > # sync the index. New versions of sup-sync don't have the --changed > argument > sup-sync --verbose --changed > > repeat for "killed" instead of "deleted" That works fine, but I have written some modifications because my maildir don't store emails using the message-id. Thanks, Daniel _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
