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4.2 Delete ‘D’ and ‘X

If you want to delete a message, type ‘d’ in Summary mode to put the ‘D’ mark on it. Don't be worried about losing the message by mistake. Since putting the ‘D’ mark has no immediate effect, it does not result in a serious mistake. By default, typing ‘x’ moves messages marked with ‘D’ to a trash.

For local folders, a trash is +trash. For IMAP, it is %trash.

To really delete messages in the trashes, there are two methods:

  1. Type ‘D’ in Summary mode.
  2. Put the ‘D’ mark in the trashes then type ‘x’.

Exactly speaking, the following rule is applied for local folders. (‘mew-trash-folder’ is default to +trash. ‘mew-trash-folder-list’ is default to ‘nil’.)

For IMAP, the same rule is applied according to both ‘mew-imap-trash-folder’ and ‘mew-imap-trash-folder-list

It is convenient if you can change the ‘*’ mark to the ‘D’ mark since you can put many the ‘D’ marks at once. To achieve this, use ‘md’.

Also, typing ‘Md’ put the ‘D’ mark to all duplicated messages excluding one for each.

There is also another mark, ‘X’, which is like the mark ‘X’. Messages marked with ‘X’ are deleted when ‘x’ is typed. The ‘X’ mark can be put by ‘M-d’.

mxM-d’ processes messages marked with ‘X’ only. Typing ‘mM-d’ converts all ‘*’ marks to ‘X’.

The following is a summary regarding with the ‘D’ mark and the ‘X’ mark.

d

Put the ‘D’ mark.

M-d

Put the ‘X’ mark.

md

Convert all ‘*’ marks to ‘D’.

mM-d

Convert all ‘*’ marks to ‘X’.

x

Process marked messages.

mxd

Process messages marked with ‘D’ only.

mxM-d

Delete messages marked with ‘X’ only.

D

Delete all messages in a trash.

C-uD

Delete all messages in a specified folder.


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