On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:32:54PM -0400, Telemachus wrote: > On Mon Jul 28 2008 @ 8:48, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:33:36 -0400 > > Telemachus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello Telemachus, > > > > > that looks for a mail with the same title in your sent folder and > > > > That could be risky; If Arvind writes multiple messages in a thread, > > checking Subject alone is insufficient to be sure the message being > > deleted is the correct one. That's why I suggested M-ID: which is > > unique. > > You are absolutely right. I was hand-waving rather than giving a proper > solution. To really do it right, given Arvind's specific requests (keep the > sent copy, wait for the mail to be received, then clean the corresponding > copy from the Sent folder) really is more complicated than it seems at > first. Sorry if I was glib. > > I don't believe that Mutt by itself can do what you described. It sounds > more to me like a multi-part problem: > > (1) Have procmail scan for messages that are from Arvind himself & to this > user list. > (2) When such a mail is found, execute a script (let's go with Perl). > (3) The Perl script receives the ID from procmail (maybe as an argument?), > then it runs through the mails in the Sent folder. If it finds a matching > ID on a mail, it deletes that item. > > I'll be curious to know if anyone has a way to do this just with Mutt, but > it strikes me that Mutt doesn't have "received-hooks" quite like what this > would need.
That is why procmail has formail and maildrop has reformail. -- Chris. ====== "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
