Fetching from gmail

[Steve Holmes]

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I have thought often about creating a macro to do the copying to trash
so to answer your question, that is exactly the command I use to do
this.  Earlier versions of mutt had a trash variable but it
disappeared with version 1.5.19 or so.  With that variable, I used to
be able to delete a message and it would be automatically moved to the
specified trash folder.  Dunno why it went away but when I looked
around in change logs and documentation, I couldn't even find
reference to it.  So it was like a ghost around here <smile>

What I do for threads presently, is to tag each message that I read
and want to delete; I do that with the 't' command.  When I'm out in
the folder and want to close out and purge the tagged messages, I just
do a ';' to prefix the next command for all tagged messages and then
do the 'C =Trash' and boom, all 98 or whatever many messages get moved
to Trash and this may take several seconds depending on the time.

Not bad all and all.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 08:24:39PM -0500, Christopher Moore wrote:
> Steve,
> How do you tell mutt to copy a message to trash.  Would you do something 
> like:
> C =Trash
> 
> Maybe this could be assigned to the d key.  I'd also like to assign 
> something similar to ctrl+d to remove an entire thread.
> 
> Cleaning out the "all maiil" folder may be quite labor intensive.  We'd 
> want to delete all conveersations without an assigned label.  This would 
> take quite a while using the web interface.  Perhaps there are some 
> python bindings for gmail which could be used.  
> I don't really mind that mutt removes the messages from the inbox if we 
> had a utility to clean out the "all mail" folder once in a while.
> 
> Chris
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:51:17PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > Yes, I use mutt to get gmail from two different accounts and I support
> > multiple folders on each of them.  The mutt setup is actually pretty
> > easy as I've used imap for some time on other systems prior to gmail.
> > The important thing to realize with gmail and IMAP is when deleting
> > unwanted messages, you need to copy them to '=Trash' (exclude the
> > quotes and realize that is capital T on Trash).  If you just delete
> > them like on standard IMAP systems and then expunge them with mutt's
> > 'x' command, the Inbox label will be removed and the messages will end
> > up in your 'All Mail' folder forever! that happened to me for a long
> > time before I realized what was happening and I still have over 8,000
> > messages to eventually clear out on one of my accounts.
> > 
> > Otherwise, gmail with IMAP is quite cool.  I never use POP.
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:06:20AM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > The best way I've found to use gmail on linux is via mutt with a special 
> > > config file to access the imap server.  
> > > 
> > > I found info in this through google.  
> > > 
> > > Chris
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