On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 22:01, Elton Woo wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 16:41, David Keen wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 20:55, Elton Woo wrote: > > > > is that unlike some other mailers, you cannot selectively > > > delete some of the messages in the trash folder. > > > That's because when you delete an email it is only marked for deletion. > > Your email isn't gone until you have expunged it. The Trash folder is > > actually a vFolder. > Sorry, I guess I didn't explain myself properly. I am aware of > the feature of "hiding" deleted mail. What I mean is that (with other > mailers), I was able to expunge *some* of the trash, and > keep others that I didn't want to wipe out immediately. > > As I understand it (perhaps wrongly) if I select "empty trash", > I don't have the choice to save *some messages* which I *don't want to > delete immediately*, but which I just want to leave in the trash. > ... at least at the time of emptying, hence my statement of "it's > all or nothing"... > ...er, am i explaining myself properly? > Perhaps I could do "show deleted" and thus "recover" those (which > I don't want to really expunge at the moment, before I "clean the > trash". (But then I'll have to 'mark them as deleted again'). > Oh well, "Man findet immer ein Ausweg" as my friends in Europe say. > > Does this sound right? *nod* I guess, I just never had the need to delete only some of my trash. It generally sits in there a day or so and then I 'expunge' it. I can undelete any messages during this time (you don't need to unhide them to do this). Any mail that I think I might want in the future I don't move to the trash! BTW, I thought VFolders were a little strange to begin with as well, but now I find them quite useful. -- David
