I have a collection of messages in which many have been marked for deletion already, however, I need to review them to make sure they are garbage. There are some I'm sure I can delete, and I know that I can use the AGGREGATE command to select messages and perform certain processes on them. However, it seems I can't expunge "selected" messages.
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:21:42 -0400, Jessica Kim <j...@stsci.edu> wrote: >Hi,
>I have a collection of messages in which many have been marked for >deletion already, however, I need to review them to make sure they are >garbage. There are some I'm sure I can delete, and I know that I can use >the AGGREGATE command to select messages and perform certain processes on >them. However, it seems I can't expunge "selected" messages.
>Does anyone know of any good way of doing this?
Save them to an empty folder, expunge the originals, and then undelete the copies.
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:21:42 -0400, Jessica Kim <j...@stsci.edu> wrote:
> >However, it seems I can't expunge "selected" messages.
> Save them to an empty folder, expunge the originals, and then undelete > the copies.
I also would like to be able to do this without having to go through the contortion that Ephraim suggested. This is #4 in my Miscellaneous Pine wishes, which are here:
In this wish, I have a suggestion for implementing this using the X and x commands. One reason that this would be useful is it would give us another *very needed* flag for messages, i.e., I could start using the D flag to mean something other than expunge this the next time that I type 'x' (because x would only be applied to *selected* messages that are marked for deletion -- see my wish for details).
Maybe if enough people ask for this, our wish will come true. Nancy
*** Nancy McGough (nm-this-address-is-va...@no.sp.am) wrote in...:
NM> On 9 Apr 2003 Ephraim Gadsby (a...@b.c) wrote: NM> > On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:21:42 -0400, Jessica Kim <j...@stsci.edu>
NM> > wrote:
NM> > NM> > >However, it seems I can't expunge "selected" messages. NM> > NM> > Save them to an empty folder, expunge the originals, and then NM> > undelete the copies. NM> NM> I also would like to be able to do this without having to go through NM> the contortion that Ephraim suggested. This is #4 in my Miscellaneous NM> Pine wishes,
There was a message in the c-client mailing list from Hein Roehrig on February 23 2003 asking for this feature in the c-client library. Mark's answer was that it this was not planned to be added (for technical reasons), so don't count on this for a long time (if ever).
<nm-this-address-is-va...@no.sp.am> wrote: >In this wish, I have a suggestion for implementing this using the >X and x commands. One reason that this would be useful is it >would give us another *very needed* flag for messages, i.e., I >could start using the D flag to mean something other than expunge >this the next time that I type 'x' (because x would only be >applied to *selected* messages that are marked for deletion -- >see my wish for details).
If the server doesn't support UIDPLUS expunging a single message require undeleting all other message, expunging, and redeleting the previously undeleted message. This can be very slow.
> On 9 Apr 2003 Ephraim Gadsby (a...@b.c) wrote: >> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:21:42 -0400, Jessica Kim <j...@stsci.edu> wrote:
>> >However, it seems I can't expunge "selected" messages.
>> Save them to an empty folder, expunge the originals, and then undelete >> the copies.
> I also would like to be able to do this without having to go > through the contortion that Ephraim suggested. This is #4 in my > Miscellaneous Pine wishes, which are here:
> In this wish, I have a suggestion for implementing this using the > X and x commands. One reason that this would be useful is it > would give us another *very needed* flag for messages, i.e., I > could start using the D flag to mean something other than expunge > this the next time that I type 'x' (because x would only be > applied to *selected* messages that are marked for deletion -- > see my wish for details).
> Maybe if enough people ask for this, our wish will come true. > Nancy
My wish for the x(punge) is an *unexpunge* toggle as sometimes I press the "x" inadvertently (as in not paying attention or whatever). I think that I got around that one time by just selecting the item and d(elete) then either undelete or space bar (don't remember and will probably cus next time also).
