* Vegard Svanberg <veg...@svanberg.no> [03-14-23 03:41]:
> * Kevin J. McCarthy <ke...@8t8.us> [2023-03-13 21:07]:
>
> > Do you mean the 2000 emails you want to delete, or the half-million emails
> > in the mailbox?
>
> The 2000 I want to delete, yes. :-)
>
> > If it's the first, it sounds as if Mutt thinks the value in $trash is not
> > the same server as the mailbox you are connected do. Otherwise it would do
> > a UID COPY on the server side, which would be faster.
>
> Holy moly, I just re-discovered I had a trash! Which, needless to say, is
> huge... I'd forgotten all about it.
>
> You're right, they're not the same. Mailbox is on IMAP, trash is a local
> file.
>
> Well, that explains it, then.
>
> After reading the fine manual, I don't see an immediate way to disable
> trash. Assuming I'll have to move it to IMAP then. Which is fine, just
> wondering if trash could be disabled as I don't really need it.
you haven't gone deep enough.
man muttrc:
maildir_trash
Type: boolean
Default: no
If set, messages marked as deleted will be saved with the
maildir trashed flag instead of unlinked. Note: this only
applies to maildir-style mailboxes. Setting it will have no
effect on other mailbox types.
and there is "mh_purge"
and
trash
Type: path
Default: “”
If set, this variable specifies the path of the trash folder
where the mails marked for deletion will be moved, instead of
being irremediably purged.
NOTE: When you delete a message in the trash folder, it is
really deleted, so that you have a way to clean the trash.
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