Re: [sup-talk] deleting files from source

From: "Chris Parsons" <cjparsons1@yahoo.co.uk>
To: sup-talk@rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] deleting files from source
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:26:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vkuz1znr0495wc@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287452900-sup-9784@maullin>

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:52:54 +0100, Daniel Hernández <daniel@degu.cl>  
wrote:

> I started using sup recently. Now I have only one source that is a
> inbox maildir folder. I want to delete some emails from the source
> forever, but when I delete or kill emails they are not really deleted
> from the maildir folder. How can I clean the maildir folder, removing
> deleted or killed emails?

The design intent of sup is to specifically remove the need to worry about  
deleting e-mails. But if you really need to do that then one way might be  
to do the following (assuming your machine has the right tools installed).  
Doing stuff like this could lose your messages. Info supplied for  
education purposes only. Proceed at your own risk!

# change to top of the Maildir
   cd ~/Mail
# get message id of all files with tag 'deleted' and put in temp file
   FL=/tmp/del-filelist
   rm -f $FL
   for i in `sup-dump | grep deleted | cut -f 1 -d' '`; do grep -l -r $i  
./*  >> $FL;done
# delete the files in the file list
   for i in `cat $FL`; do rm $i; done
# sync the index. New versions of sup-sync don't have the --changed  
argument
   sup-sync --verbose --changed

repeat for "killed" instead of "deleted"
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