On Jan 14, 2008 6:28 PM, Kyle Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday, January 14 at 05:59 PM, quoth Francis Moreau: > > >On Jan 14, 2008 5:59 PM, John Velman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This works for me ( in .muttrc). > >> > >> _________ > >> > >> # poor mans trash > > > >Honestly I'm wondering what's wrong with Trash. > > > >It seems that Trash is not really welcome in Mutt. > > By what metric? The fact that support for it isn't built-in (added via > two simple hooks or via the trash patch linked on the mutt webpage: > http://cedricduval.free.fr/mutt/patches/#trash) or are you seeing some > sort of wider hostility to the existence of folders with that name? >
Yes. And "poor man's trash" comment doesn't sound that having a trash is a clever idea. ISTR to see this comment on mutt website too. > One way of understanding mutt's approach to email is as an email > "viewer". Mutt, given a folder, does its level best to manage that > folder of email. Mutt is not targetted to managing a large collection > of many folders of email; it has no support for searching multiple > mailboxes at the same time, displaying messages from multiple > mailboxes, displaying messages from multiple accounts, automatically > transferring messages from an "INBOX" to other folders when you open > the INBOX, etc. When viewing the contents of a folder, mutt makes *no* > assumptions about the existence of ANY other folder or account. In > that sense, mutt approaches mail very differently from other email > applications: mutt does it on a folder-by-folder basis, while other > applications (e.g. Thunderbird) approach it on an account-by-account > basis. When you think about email on an account-by-account basis, > things like folders with special purposes makes more sense. Thus, in > other applications, "delete means move to the account's Trash folder" > makes sense, while in mutt "delete means mark the message as deleted" > makes more sense (why would mutt assume that you have (or should have) > a special folder for deleted messages? By moving the message to a > Trash folder, you are losing the information about where it came > from.). > Right but is it really the point of having a Trash ? Having a Trash is just a way to keep some no more usefull mails for an amount of time because I can wrongly assume that I won't need them. I really think that a lot of people have already deleted some mails then a couple of days/weeks later wants to read them back. Who haven't done such mistake ? When searching for old information in Trash, I don't care if mutt doesn't know where that email came from. I could easily decide where to put this email if I want to keep it. > However, you can easily make mutt behave more like an "email is an > account" program by using hooks and other configuration features, and > if that isn't enough, you can even patch mutt to add the functionality > in a form you find personally palatable. > No doubt you can do that other ways. But that was not my point. I was wondering what was bad to have a trash... Thanks -- Francis
