On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 08:18:37AM -0400, darren chamberlain wrote: > * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-06-06 16:31]: > > % 1. Where do D (deleted) msgs go? Is there an equivalent of > > % trash, or am I truly out of the disneyland GUI world now and > > % just like using rm on files, there's no going back. > > > > With the stock version, that's the way it is. > > [-- snip --] > > > Other folks have in the past whipped up some macros that bind 'd' to > > actually save to some other folder where you *then* really delete the > > messages later. > > I have been using this setup for over a year, and it works great: > > ## Delete messages to the trash can rather than bit-bucket, unless > ## we're in the trash folder. > folder-hook . macro index d "<save-message>=trash<enter>" > folder-hook . macro pager d "<save-message>=trash<enter>" > folder-hook . macro pager D "<delete-message>" > > folder-hook trash macro index d "<delete-message>" > folder-hook trash macro pager d "<delete-message>" > > # When we go into to the trash folder, tag stuff greater than 14 > # days old. Don't mark anything that's already flagged, though. > folder-hook trash push 'D~r>14d!~F\n' > > Thus, in all folders except trash, 'd' moves the message to the trash > folder, and 'D' deletes it for real, when I'm viewing the message (in > the index, 'D' still maps to delete-pattern). Every few days or so, I > go into the trash folder to clean it out (I save 2 weeks worth of > trash). Hope that's helpful.
Wow! This is great and "..helpful" is a bit of an understatement. And even better, I'm starting to understand some of this stuff (the hooks), although I must admit the push statement will take some more studying ...! Thanks, Kevin > > (darren) > > -- > We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it. > -- Eeyore -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941
