Subject: manual expunge all folders

From: Brian Harvell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:52:16 -0500 (EST)

Is there a way to manually expunge all folders at once? I don't like the auto expunge but
I don't want to have to go into each folder to tell it to expunge.

Thanks
Brian

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From: "Cornelius C. Noack" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:31:27 +0400 (Kaukasus Normalzeit)

> I don't want to have to go into each folder to tell it to expunge.
go to the directory where your folders are stored and simply delete
the files with the delete command of you Operating system. This
fix for your problem is, of course, outside of pine, but works
perfectly (to me, its one of the great advantages of pine as compared
to any stupid Microsoft program that you always have access to things
on the lower level!)

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From: Brian Harvell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 13:54:10 -0500 (EST)

> to any stupid Microsoft program that you always have access to things

Yes that isn't quite what I was looking for though. This is a solution my
friend uses when he gets backed up on his email rm /var/spool/[user] :)

I found this patch which I might be able to use by setting auto expunge on
the other incoming folders. This still isn't quite what I was looking for but
it's better.

http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/info/rules.html

So after many years of using pine I have now just started using other incoming
folders for mail sorting. One thing I have noticed is when I'm in a folder and
expunge and then hit tab it takes some time before pine is ready to move to the
next folder (3-5 seconds even for folders that only have 1 or two messages)....
Which is what brings up my expunge question I would prefer to just expunge
everything at the end of the day.

Brian

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