Message deletion wisdom

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
>So in summary, if you would like to "delete" messages, you can:
>
> * add a key binding to emacs (or your favorite ui) to add a "deleted"
>   tag to messages that you want to delete:
>
>    (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "d"
>      (lambda ()
>        (interactive)
>        (notmuch-show-tag-message "+deleted")))
>
> * add exclusion for messages with the "deleted" tag:
>
>    notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted
>
> * and if you really want them purged from disk, delete them manually
>   with:
>
>    notmuch search --output=files tag:deleted | xargs -l rm

Thanks Jamie, that ws a very helpful summary.

Sebastian

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