On Saturday, 14 August 1999 at 21:18, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> Brendan Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sat, 14 Aug 1999:
> > Alright, I found the bug (line 653 in compose.c, at least in CVS). The
> > fix will be somewhat along the lines of the postponed-messages folder
> > hack: close the current folder without expunge, open the new folder to
> > select the messages, when done close it and open the original folder
> > read-only.
> 
> I'm curious, what happens if the current folder has messages marked as
> to be deleted?  Since you say "close without expunge" I assume they
> aren't deleted, but will the delete-flag be saved or cleared?  It sounds
> like it will be cleared, at least from what I know of Mutt's internals
> (not that much, admittedly).
> 
> If I'm composing a message, I wouldn't expect anything I do from within
> the compose-menu to affect how I left things in the folder I was in.

Right. Actually the delete flags will be saved like you would
expect, without deleting the messages. The IMAP postpone code does
this already. Maybe later I can generalise this as a config option,
something like an "imap_closeexpunge" quadopt, so you can leave
deleted messages between sessions.

> 
> Mikko
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