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Re: can not go to the message I want to undelete



On (21/04/09 21:13), David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
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| From: "David J. Weller-Fahy" <dave-lists-mutt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Subject: Re: can not go to the message I want to undelete
| Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:13:55 -0500
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| * Zhengquan Zhang <zhang.zhengquan@xxxxxxxxx> [2009-04-21 19:58 -0500]:
| > I accidentally used 'd' on a message and can not go back to it.  I
| > tried to use arrow keys to go back to it and use 'u' to undelete it
| > but it just failed to do so.
| >
| > I have 'set delete=yes' in muttrc. So once I quit mutt, the message
| > will be automatically deleted. I don't want this to happen.
| 
| Perhaps you could simply select the message by typing its number, then
| 'C' to copy it, and select the current mailbox as the destination?  That
| would result in a duplicate message existing if your undelete efforts
| succeed, but even if you lose the original message you'll have the copy.
|

Or just open another terminal, go to the right mailbox, and if you
don't know the right number for the message you're worrying about,
just copy them all to another directory?  Once you confirm that the
copy worked, close mutt, open it again, and change to whatever
directory you parked the mail in?

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