On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:46 -0800, "Brendan Cully" <bren...@kublai.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, 17 November 2009 at 11:31, Kevin Kobb wrote: > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > >On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:17:36AM -0500, Kevin Kobb wrote: > > >>Hello, > > >> > > >>I am using mutt to connect to a Cyrus IMAP server. It is working > > >>fine, but I have one question. Sometimes I have a number of > > >>deleted messages in a folder, but I only want to purge one > > >>message. I know how to purge them all, but I haven't been able > > >>find a way to purge just one, and leave the rest. Is this > > >>possible? If so, I would be very grateful if somebody could tell > > >>me how. > > > > > >No, but if you insist, there is a workaround. > > > > > >Save the message to be deleted to a temporary folder (create one > > >if necessary). Open the temporary folder in another instance of > > >mutt. Delete your message, purge, and exit. > > > > > >I have to wonder why you are deleting messages that you don't > > >really want to delete. Perhaps you should be moving them to > > >another folder instead? > > > > > >-dsr- > > > > > Typically, I am doing this for a user. They call and complain because > > the got an offensive email of some type. If I save the message to > > another folder (which I do) it still leaves a copy in the Inbox > > folder with the deleted flag set. > > > > If I do an expunge to get rid of the offensive message, it will also > > expunge all the users messages with the deleted flag set. Now, > > granted if they have the deleted flag set you would think they would > > be ready to have them expunged, but that is not always the case, and > > trying to convince an end user of that is is a good way to get a > > headache ;) > > You could also copy all the messages _but_ the target to a temp > folder, then purge, then copy them back. Or tag all deleted messages, > clear the deleted flag, set some other flag (like 'flagged'), delete > the single message, tag the flagged messages, and set them to deleted > but not flagged. The second method might be a bit quicker, but depends > on there not already being flagged messages in the mailbox. I'd go > with the first.
Or, you could utilize a "poor man's" trash-folder like from: http://wiki.mutt.org/?MacroSamples and then just delete stuff from there. I've been using this method for years quite successfully. festus
