pazz
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4 years ago Hi and welcome to alot!
Quoting Max (2020-07-05 21:35:10)
- How can I move a mail into the trash folder with alot?
As you already know, notmuch/alot won't touch your emails on disk.
Usually, one would periodically run an extra "tagging script", which will tag new mails.
Many of us write such a script in bash and call int as a post-hook from offlineimap or notmuch new.
Personally, I use https://github.com/afewmail/afew for this.
Now, to answer your question, you can move around email files in your tagging script based on tags. The typical workflow would be to identify all mails with a "trash" tag, and either move them to some folder or delete them. Afew has a "move move" for this: https://afew.readthedocs.io/en/latest/move_mode.html
- How can I show the content of a folder (for example the trash folder) in alot?
Notmuchs query syntax allows for a search string of the form folder:.... Have a look at man notmuch-search-terms for details.
MaxGyver83
lucc
I'm new to alot and I there are some things I don't understand so far. And it's difficult googling for answers about alot.
So far, I found that alot (and notmuch) can't delete emails physically. The just get tagged as "killed". That's OK for me. It's like moving to trash but not to empty it. But I also use Thunderbird and K-9 Mail (and sometimes FairEmail) and when I move a mail into trash in any of these apps, this will be synced with the IMAP server and then with all other apps connected to my mail account. But when I tag a mail as "killed" in alot (and sync again with offlineimap), it's still in the inbox in Thunderbird and K-9 Mail. I suppose, I'm doing it wrong because nobody wants to "delete" mails in every app separately. I also tried tagging a mail as "trash" instead of "killed" but Thunderbird didn't seem to see that tag either.