Understanding message deletion model

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 03:38:25PM -0500, Jason Franklin wrote:
>For example, let's say I mark a message to be deleted, and I have mutt 
>set to say "yes" to the purge prompt at the end of my session, but my 
>computer dies before I can properly close out my mutt process. Will I 
>then lose those messages as I have done here?

I think also relevant is your reply to Hsieh Chin Fan:

>I meant that I checked my IMAP folder called "Trash", not the folder 
>designated by $trash. That setting is empty in my new configuration, so 
>mutt doesn't know anything about a trash folder.

If you don't set $trash, then answering "yes" at the purge prompt will 
permanently delete those messages.

Because your IMAP server auto-expunges, answering "no" at the purge 
prompt will also result in those message being permanently deleted, 
whether you have $trash set or not (because Mutt assumes the messages 
won't be expunged and so doesn't copy them to $trash).

I would suggest putting 'set trash = "=Trash" ; set delete = yes' in 
your .muttrc to avoid messages going missing.  That way Mutt will copy 
deleted messages to your trash folder before syncing.

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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