Re: IDLE, read_all, and not delete - bad combination, skipping

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Nov 2020 15:09:41 -0600
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Langenxx Feld <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hallo Charles:

Just send to the list in future, please.  Your MUA appears to be ignoring the
Mail-Followup-To: header; I don't need extra copies of list messages.

> Another thing I wanted to ask before leaving this mail business in despair
> is:
> 
> IDLE, read_all, and not delete - bad combination, skipping
> 
> I know that you are not using IDLE, but it is a nice thing nevertheless, and
> I would like to keep it, so I thought it is worth asking at least once.
> 
> I was being careful and testing with "delete_after = 14", instead of "delete
> = true".
> 
> Are those 2 options not more or less equivalent, at least as far as IDLE is
> concerned? At least in a way, so that this restriction could be lifted if
> delete_after is given.

I think you're over-thinking this.  The solution to your problem is to unset
read_all; you can use that with delete_after all you want and not get the
above error message.

Charles
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