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+Subject: Re: Message deletion wisdom\r
+From: Sebastian Spaeth <sebastian@sspaeth.de>\r
+Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:24:29 +0200\r
+To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,\r
+ Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz@cern.ch>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
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+Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:\r
+>So in summary, if you would like to "delete" messages, you can:\r
+>\r
+> * add a key binding to emacs (or your favorite ui) to add a "deleted"\r
+> tag to messages that you want to delete:\r
+>\r
+> (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "d"\r
+> (lambda ()\r
+> (interactive)\r
+> (notmuch-show-tag-message "+deleted")))\r
+>\r
+> * add exclusion for messages with the "deleted" tag:\r
+>\r
+> notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted\r
+>\r
+> * and if you really want them purged from disk, delete them manually\r
+> with:\r
+>\r
+> notmuch search --output=3Dfiles tag:deleted | xargs -l rm\r
+\r
+Thanks Jamie, that ws a very helpful summary.\r
+\r
+Sebastian\r
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