On Tuesday, July 20, 2021 02:19:43 PM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 20 iul 21, 11:37:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 20, 2021 08:07:22 AM Charlie wrote: > > > Nothing happened when I ran the "filter all messages in folder" or when > > > I ran filter "filter selected messages". So then selected, highlighted, > > > the message and used the "move" command in Claws Mail, and selected the > > > folder the message was to go to. > > > > > > It just vanished. Attempted to find the message in every directory > > > including Trash, but it is nowhere to be found, assume forever gone. > > > > > > Can a macro or some such thing; be placed/hidden, in an email message > > > to delete it the minute an attempt is made to move it? > > In theory, yes, it's probably possible, but I think it is *highly* > unlikely. > > > From the peanut gallery, my first suspicion would be that you've somehow > > specified the directory to move it to incorrectly. > > > > It would be helpful to post the macro here, or if it is long, at least > > the parts relevant to moving that email to the directory you specified. > > > > To answer your question, yes, a macro could be written (at least in some > > languages -- I don't use Claws mail so not sure about that) that could > > delete the email, although I would suspect it would end up in a trash > > folder in which you could find it.
Oops, disregard my answer / comments above, they are misleading / not on point -- I didn't read the original post carefully enough. > The only realistic method that *might* work on many different clients > would be to embed something in the HTML part. See EFAIL[1] for a past > example. Even then, you might notice that not all clients were (fully) > affected[2]. > > Also, what would be the point in deleting the message just because it's > moved to a different folder? > > The only thing that might come close would be Outlook's "recall message" > feature, though it rarely works properly on Outlook and I seriously > doubt Claws Mail even supports it. > > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFAIL > [2] > https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/decade-old-efail-at > tack-can-decrypt-previously-obtained-encrypted-e-mails/ > > Kind regards, > Andrei
