On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 00:30:27 -0400, Kyle Wheeler sent: >On Friday, July 7 at 02:05 PM, quoth Pete Johns: >>On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 11:08:10 -0800, Jon sent: >>>Is it possible to have 'a folder' say =saved be 100% >>>non-deletable with the 'd' key... or 'D' key? >>I would suggest not relying on your mail user agent for this, >>but on your operating system. chmod -w Mail/saved >Well, that makes it non-editable as well. > Indeed you are correct. Generally, if I don't want to delete a file, then I want to be very careful about editing it, too. Of course Jon (The OP) may have different requirements, but these were not clear from his email. >It may be better to do something like (on linux), chattr +a >Mail/saved > On FreeBSD this would be chflags uappnd Mail/saved . How mutt treats a file with such a flag set is left as an exercise for the reader. >Then of course, there's the standard folder-hook tricks you can >play, to make it impossible to delete messages in that folder. > There are. Sadly, folder-hook 'saved' 'set read_only' (which was my initial thought, I must confess) will not work as it will only affect the next mailbox to be opened. I would recommend a solution at the operating system level, should the user wish to access their mail (for whatever reason) with more than one user-agent. Best; --paj -- Pete Johns <http://johnsy.com/> Contact Information <http://johnsy.com/contact/> Three Months In Melbourne! <http://johnsy.com/20060629092220>
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