tag:deleted messages immediately deleted ?

Olivier Berger olivier.berger at telecom-sudparis.eu
Fri Nov 21 05:21:16 PST 2014


David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:

> Olivier Berger <olivier.berger at telecom-sudparis.eu> writes:
>
>>
>> So, I've tried and removed the spam tag from the exclude_tags, and
>> suddenly, the search in emacs responds with the 981... which means that
>> most of the deleted ones had the spam tag too.
>>
>>
>> So it means that if one explicitely requests an excluded tag, other
>> exclude tags still apply. Not sure this is the desirable option : maybe
>> if one exclusion is waved, then others should too ?
>>
>> What do you think ?
>
> I'm not sure. What you suggest sounds sensible enough. On the other hand
> the way it behaves now is precisely as documented; I'm not sure whether
> this is because of a design choice or ease of implementation. Maybe Mark
> can comment further on that.  I guess there are even people who
> like/rely on the current functionality, since there always are ;).
>

In any case, there has been a change in the way this worked.

For the moment, I'm using the following saved search :
    (tag:deleted or tag:spam) and tag:deleted
which will display the deleted mails.

FWIW.

Best regards,

-- 
Olivier BERGER 
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Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)


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