[MlMt] MoveToMailbox Trash moves the whole thread

Niels Kobschätzki niels at kobschaetzki.de
Tue May 8 20:33:07 UTC 2012


On 8 May 2012, at 22:28, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 8 May 2012, at 21:34, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
>
>> I defined in my Keybindings-file the following:
>>
>> 	"x" = ("moveToMailbox:", "TRASH");
>
> A minor thing, but you should use `trash` instead of `TRASH`. The 
> difference is subtle. The lowercase variant is what you want, the 
> uppercase variant is the smart mailbox in the GUI for the universal 
> mailbox for “Deleted Messages”. (But apparently both work.)

ok

>
>> with that I want to move a single mail to the trash-folder of the 
>> imap-source which contains the mail (aka what backspace does but x is 
>> easier to reach). But the definition above moves the whole thread to 
>> the trash and not only a single mail.
>> Bug or feature? How would I move a single mail?
>
> It should do the same as when you hit backspace, that is, if the 
> thread is collapsed then it moves the whole thread and if it is 
> expanded then only the selected message is moved. Is this not what you 
> see?

Nope. If I'm in any message of a thread, even when I do not "organize by 
thread" and invoke that command the whole thread gets moved. 
Interestingly that happens apparently **only** when command is defined 
with TRASH or trash.

Niels


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