Commands for deleted purge, move read messages

[Ross Vandegrift]

Hey everyone,

I'm looking to see if there's a mutt command I can bind to a key for the
"purge deleted messages" action and the "move read mail to $mbox"
action.

I find myself periodically quitting mutt just to clean out stuff I've
already dealt with in my spool.

Thanks,
Ross

[Ray Van Dolson]

Post by Ross Vandegrift
Hey everyone,
I'm looking to see if there's a mutt command I can bind to a key for the
"purge deleted messages" action and the "move read mail to $mbox"
action.

Try '$'

Ray

[Michael Kjorling]

Post by Ray Van Dolson

Post by Ross Vandegrift
I'm looking to see if there's a mutt command I can bind to a key for the
"purge deleted messages" action and the "move read mail to $mbox"
action.

Try '$'

That will commit the changes in the current mailbox to disk, but will
it also move read mail to $mbox?

If not, you could always try something involving 'c' followed by '^'
<enter>.

[Ross Vandegrift]

Post by Michael Kjorling

Post by Ray Van Dolson

Post by Ross Vandegrift
I'm looking to see if there's a mutt command I can bind to a key for the
"purge deleted messages" action and the "move read mail to $mbox"
action.

Try '$'

That will commit the changes in the current mailbox to disk, but will
it also move read mail to $mbox?
If not, you could always try something involving 'c' followed by '^'
<enter>.

This is what I've cooked up so far:

macro index $ <sync-mailbox>c!<enter>


And that seems to work pretty well with "set move = yes"

Ross

[Michael Kjorling]

Post by Ross Vandegrift
macro index $ <sync-mailbox>c!<enter>

You might want to try something like this:

macro index $ '<enter-command>set delete=yes move=yes<enter><sync-mailbox><change-folder>^<enter><enter-command>set move=ask-yes delete=ask-yes<enter>'

It all goes on one line in your .muttrc (in case it wraps) and adjust
as desired at the end.

The "^" means "current mailbox", so if you use this macro in a mailbox
other than your inbox, you don't get thrown out of it.

The one downside of this that I can think of is that it repositions
the current message indicator as the mailbox is reloaded, but that
seems like a relatively small trade-off.

[Ross Vandegrift]

Post by Michael Kjorling

Post by Ross Vandegrift
macro index $ <sync-mailbox>c!<enter>

macro index $ '<enter-command>set delete=yes
move=yes<enter><sync-mailbox><change-folder>^<enter><enter-command>set
move=ask-yes delete=ask-yes<enter>'

I ended up with something very close:
macro index $ ':set move = yes<enter>:set delete = yes<enter><sync-mailbox>c!<enter>:set move = ask-yes<enter>:set delete = ask-yes<enter>'

But I like your idea of ^ instead of ! so I think I'll use that instead.

Thanks for the help,

Ross

[Ross Vandegrift]

Post by Ray Van Dolson

Post by Ross Vandegrift
Hey everyone,
I'm looking to see if there's a mutt command I can bind to a key for the
"purge deleted messages" action and the "move read mail to $mbox"
action.

Try '$'

Hmmm - works for purging deleted, but not for filing read messages.

Better than nothing!

Ross