On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 01:18:47PM -0600, David DeSimone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Rich Lafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > It seems that Pine can keep track of messages flagged as deleted,
> > between sessions (it adds a header, 'X-Status: D'), so you can mark a
> > bunch of messages as deleted and they stay marked until you finally
> > expunge/sync the mailbox.
>
> Mutt supports one side of this... if the mailbox contains messages with
> the 'X-Status: D' header, they will indeed be pre-marked for deletion
> upon entering the folder. I have a procmail script which marks spam
> messages in this fashion.
>
> However, Mutt has no support for writing a mailbox in this fashion.
Ah, it's a start :-)
> > Have I missed an option to do this in mutt, or is it not possible?
> > Was there a reason, or has it even been noticed/considered? (I sure
> > hadn't noticed it ;-)
>
> Why do people always insist that someone give a specific reason why
> something hasn't been done yet? As if everyone had already considered
> every possibility, and each was selected and rejected for various
> criteria... :)
Because that's often the case with ideas coming from Pine, with Mutt :-)
> In this case, the idea has come up on this list, and several people
> thought it was a good idea, but nobody actually wrote any code, so
> nothing actually happened. That's how open software usually is. :)
Well, it's not an itch *I* need to scratch, so now I can turn around to
him and note that patches are welcome :-) Having not used Pine since
2.x, I had no idea what might have gone on regarding this bit.
-Rich
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