Daniel --
...and then Daniel Freedman said...
% Hi,
Hello!
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% Apologies upfront if this is well-known, but I searched mutt.org's FAQ
% and manual, google's linux area , deja, etc. and came up completely
% empty.
%
% I'd very much like to be able to set a message's status to 'deleted',
% but: without synchronizing my mailbox/folder so as to actually expunge
...
% similar, but I'd prefer to be unanbiguous in my mind and use the
% DELETE flag instead.
While that makes some sense, and I can understand your thoughts about
threading becoming messy, that is not available in mutt. You can either
quit or change and that will both sync your mailbox and mark items as old
if you have mark_old set or you can just sync (bound by default to $) to
write flag settings and purge deleted items, but there's no way to keep
them around.
%
% Thanks so much for the suggestions (just a pointer to the right
% document would also be appreciated).
All I can suggest is that you read your mail through an IMAP connection,
which apparently does allow you to store a 'D'elete flag across sessions.
You might, though it's somewhat messy, whip up a macro that sets the
X-Label: field to anything you wish; you could later go back and limit
your view to just those messages and then truly delete them. You can
even display the X-Label field in your index, so you could just make it
'D' and have another status-like column to show you what is what. If I
were to do that, though, I'd probably set the field to something like the
day of the month or even the julian day and then delete only the oldest
marked messages.
%
% Take care,
HTH & HAND
%
% Daniel
%
%
% PS. Please cc me on replies as I don't subscribe. Thanks so much.
Ah, but you should ;-)
%
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% Daniel A. Freedman
% Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
% Department of Physics
% Cornell University
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