Understanding message deletion model

[Jason Franklin]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 10:27:59AM +0800, 謝晉凡 Hsieh Chin Fan via Mutt-users wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 08:47:44PM -0500, Jason Franklin wrote:
> > Now, if I re-open mutt, the message is gone... completely. I'm confused
> > as to why the message was removed even though I typed 'n' at the prompt
> > for whether or not to proceed with the purge.
> > 
> > Where did this message go? I already checked my trash folder, and it's
> > not there. Unfortunately, I've been re-writing my configs, so the trash
> > folder is not named yet.
> 
> Did you read the message? Maybe it is moved to $mbox.

It looks like my $mbox value has no effect since my configuration is
using the default (which sets $move to no).

I checked my home dir and found no ~/mbox file. :/

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Jason Franklin