#2895: mutt should keep a deletion log
Comment (by Brendan Cully):
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On Sunday, 27 May 2007 at 00:34, Mutt wrote:
> #2895: mutt should keep a deletion log
>
> After spending the past hour or so deleting piles of old email, and
then
> watching mutt crash because of some sort of bizarre server-side IMAP
bug,
> and losing track of all my deletions, I am somewhat frustrated.
>
> It would be nice if mutt could keep a deletion log of messages deleted,
> such that, when this case happens, it would be possible to restore the
log
> in a new mutt and not have to painstakingly find those deleted messages
> and delete them again.
>
> Of course it would be nice to fix all the bugs that could cause mutt to
> crash and people to lose work. In this case, it is a difficult-to-debug
> IMAP interaction that I think is really a server-side problem (but of
> course mutt shouldn't crash in any case)...
>
> So this enhancement request is really a band-aid.
>
> Still, I think it would be a very helpful band-aid to have.
Feel free to sync-mailbox whenever you want to commit your work. As
long as you don't expunged the messages, they will simply be marked
deleted on the server.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2895#comment:>
