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Re: Deleted Mail?



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On Saturday, December 15 at 04:17 PM, quoth Cameron Simpson:
>On 14Dec2007 23:02, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>| On Friday, December 14 at 08:47 PM, quoth Bill:
>| >What 'exactly' happens to an email message when it is deleted in Mutt?
>| >Is it at all recoverable?
>| 
>| That depends on how your message was stored. Generally, the answer is 
>| no, it's not recoverable.
>[... behaviour of various mailbox formats snipped ...]
>
>But remember that you can remap your 'd' key. Mine saves the article to
>my archive mailbox (I have one for each folder, per year).

True, but he didn't ask "what happens when you press the d key". By 
default, all that happens when you press the d key is that the message 
gets marked for deletion, not actually deleted.

I suppose I could say "of course, it's perfectly recoverable, provided 
you had backed it up in some way", after all, why ignore the 
possibility that Bill had some other form of backup? (remapping 'd' 
isn't the only method of saving yourself when you didn't mean to mark  
a message as deleted.) But I felt that was rather outside the scope of 
his question.

~Kyle
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