On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 06:41:51PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:26:57AM +0200, Rejo Zenger wrote: > > > No messages will be "auto deleted". > > > > The only thing that happens is that messages you earlier have marked as > > "to be deleted" will be actually deleted. Or better, any changes you > > have made to the status of the message is comitted. The behaviour > > wouldn't be any different from exiting a mailbox or pressing "$". > > > > And, in the spirit of mutt, such a setting would be configurable. One > > can turn it on or off and set the interval. > > > > I can't think of a reason why this would be bad (especialy if it's > > configurable and the default is "off"). > > There're some good reasons not to do it and "help" people by making > it harder for them to shoot in their feet. > > For eexample, you tag tag delete messages and cover messages you > didn't want, or have hooks like me that mark duplicates for duplication > which would delete valid mail automatically if I weren't paying > attention to them immediately. But when I have to care of the manually, > I just do the whole syncing business myself.
Can't this easily be controlled? set delete=ask-yes. If that's not enough, it suggests that deleting messages should be abstracted from sync-mailbox so that you can sync flags and delete messages independently. Loosing reply flags on e.g. support email--where you often can't remember if you've replied b/c you don't know the person and you're answering the same question over and over--is really a pain. Marc
