Re: [??] delete garbage

[Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu>]

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>>>>> "KG" == Kai Grossjohann
>>>>> <grossjohann@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

KG> You could (carefully!) set up an nnmail-split-methods that matches
KG> all mails *except* the trash ones.  If there is no entry in
KG> nnmail-split-methods for those mails, they will be quickly routed to
KG> the bit bucket.  I think.

A better, though untested, idea is to create a split method that matches
these messages, and make the directory where they will spool to a
symbolic link to /dev/null.

I do not know what will happen if you set the final, null string match
in nnmail-split-methods to a null string, but I think Gnus will not like
it.  Maybe Red should add a check for a symbol in the car of each split
method, something like 'garbage, and anything that matches the cdr is
"deleted with extreme prejudice".  Garbage checking should probably not
be allowed to match a null string (everything); much too dangerous, IMO.

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