expunge some messages marked delete but not others
Jessica Kim
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?
Thanks,
Jessica
Ephraim Gadsby
Save them to an empty folder, expunge the originals, and then undelete
the copies.
Nancy McGough
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:21:42 -0400, Jessica Kim <jk...@stsci.edu> wrote:
>
> >However, it seems I can't expunge "selected" messages.
>
> 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:
<http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/#wishesMisc>
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
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Eduardo Chappa
NM> On 9 Apr 2003 Ephraim Gadsby (a@b.c) wrote:
NM> > On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:21:42 -0400, Jessica Kim <jk...@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).
Ephraim Gadsby
<nm-this-addr...@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.
a user
> On 9 Apr 2003 Ephraim Gadsby (a@b.c) wrote:
>> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:21:42 -0400, Jessica Kim <jk...@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:
>
> <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/#wishesMisc>
>
> 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).