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mutt trash folder

Posted in General Nonsense, Linux by Matthew on April 15th, 2007

I get a lot of email. Read again, A LOT of email. I am subscribed to quite a few mailing lists for a bunch of open source projects and Linux distros. For the most part, I read and delete mail rather quickly. Sometimes too quickly. A few times after reading something in my non-mailing list mailboxes, I wish I wouldn’t have deleted so quickly. Thank goodness mutt is has so many configuration options.

folder-hook . 'macro index d ‘
folder-hook =INBOX$ ‘macro index d “=INBOX.Trash“‘
folder-hook =INBOX.Daubenspeck$ ‘macro index d “=INBOX.Trash“‘
That is all it takes. The first line is the default catch all. In my example, it tells d to act normally and delete files without the trash. The second and third line does the work for the two mailboxes that I need a trash folder for.

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  1. John said,

    on April 15th, 2007 at 4:03 pm

    Wow, only three lines to add a feature that every other MUA has had since about 1995. That’s awesome! ;P

    VIVA LA PINE!

  2. Matthew said,

    on April 15th, 2007 at 11:44 pm

    Give me a break. I’m surprised you actually left your name on that comment. Anyone that actually does more then “read” email would never be stuck trying to fumble through this with Pine.

  3. Nathan said,

    on April 16th, 2007 at 9:28 am

    Pine, cut the crap John! :)

    Mutt takes three lines so we can keep out the riff raff.

  4. Matthew said,

    on April 16th, 2007 at 9:36 am

    Now all I need to do is hack together a script to delete files older then $foo days old.

  5. Paul said,

    on June 21st, 2007 at 7:16 am

    Have you figured out how to use multiple trash folders for multiple INBOXs?

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