On Thursday, 06 January 2000 at 15:12, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> 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.
...
> > 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.
BTW, IMAP handles both sides of this. Just don't purge - messages will
keep theit D flags...
