On 11Nov2022 15:38, Jason Franklin <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 07:18:26PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 08:47:44PM -0500, Jason Franklin wrote:
> Are "purging" and "deleting" not the same thing?
According to the IMAP protocol, they are not. Deleting is marking the
message with the "deleted" flag, which normally doesn't automatically remove
it from the mailbox. Purging (expunging) will remove messages marked as
"deleted" from the mailbox.
Very good to know.
It looks like I'm marking deleted with 'd', exiting without purging via
mutt, then my provider knows to purge the message anyway.
I'm using local email, not IMAP, but I map my "d" key to:
<save-message><enter><next-undeleted>
and I've got:
save-hook . archive-folder-name-here
so that the default save location (implicitly used in the macro) is the
archive folder for my current folder.
It seems like an odd distinction to separate "purging" from "moving to
trash folder."
Persoanlly, I do not have a trash folder; I just "archive" messages. A
bit like the GMail model is (or was? dunno any more).
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
