[FEATURE] Purge ignored messages from index

Jeremy Nickurak not-much at trk.nickurak.ca
Thu Nov 22 09:47:07 PST 2018


Don't they need to be in the index in order to match the ignore condition,
which then allows them to be excluded from usual activities?

What's the actual thing you're hoping to achieve by not having those
ignored messages be in the index?

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 10:33 AM David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:

> Markus Weimar <markus.weimar at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Indexed but subsequently ignored messages remain indexed. I suggest to
> purge them from the index as if the files were removed.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > * Create index including spam directory
> > * Add spam directory to ignore list
> > * Neither ´new´ nor ´reindex 'folder:spam'´ purges the spam messages
> from the index
> >
>
> My first instinct would be to leave new as is, but change reindex to pay
> attention to some ignore parameter.
>
> d
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