[MlMt] Finger slip deleted a mailbox - how recover?
Benny Kjær Nielsen
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Mon Apr 1 07:58:34 EDT 2019
On 27 Mar 2019, at 0:37, Randall Gellens wrote:
> I wonder if an alternative approach might be worth considering. For
> example, instead of nagging with an "Are you sure?" prompt, perhaps
> keep a list of "recent" mailbox renames, and make that a pane that can
> be viewed. That would allow users to undo or re-rename a mailbox.
If going that way, it would be easier to simply support regular undo for
mailbox renaming.
>> (It would also help if MailMate was better at moving IMAP mailboxes
>> efficiently which is currently not always the case.)
>
> Do you use RENAME or do you create the new mailbox and then APPEND the
> messages?
RENAME is used for simple rename cases, but the fallback is
create+append equivalent to moving between accounts. Improving this is
not straightforward, but when/if I do I've noted to also add undo/redo.
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