[H-GEN] mutt assistance

[Edwin Groothuis]

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On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 07:49:46AM +1000, Sandra Milne wrote:
> Morning folks. I'm running late for work so I'll keep this brief. Does
> anyone know how to expunge deleted messages from my inbox in mutt
> without quitting the program? I had a look through the help and can't
> seem to find the key to press. Do I need to bind one? I found a website
> that said to press 'x' but this just prompts me to quit without saving.

$ will do, but it's then both removed from file and in the mailbox.

I've once tried to make a patch so the fact that the status was
written into the mailbox (just like read, unread and new, you now
had a status Deleted). The advantage is that if you keep mail for
a week, two weeks, three weeks without purging it and you do something
stupid which causes mutt to close without saving, at least you don't
have to delete all the messages again.

Maybe it's in mutt-devel already, maybe not.

Edwin
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