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Re: Strange email behaviour................

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On Tuesday, July 20, 2021 02:19:43 PM Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 20 iul 21, 11:37:02, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 20, 2021 08:07:22 AM Charlie wrote:
> > > Nothing happened when I ran the "filter all messages in folder" or when
> > > I ran filter "filter selected messages". So then selected, highlighted,
> > > the message and used the "move" command in Claws Mail, and selected the
> > > folder the message was to go to.
> > > 
> > > It just vanished. Attempted to find the message in every directory
> > > including Trash, but it is nowhere to be found, assume forever gone.
> > > 
> > > Can a macro or some such thing; be placed/hidden, in an email message
> > > to delete it the minute an attempt is made to move it?
> 
> In theory, yes, it's probably possible, but I think it is *highly*
> unlikely.
> 
> > From the peanut gallery, my first suspicion would be that you've somehow
> > specified the directory to move it to incorrectly.
> > 
> > It would be helpful to post the macro here, or if it is long, at least
> > the parts relevant to moving that email to the directory you specified.
> > 
> > To answer your question, yes, a macro could be written (at least in some
> > languages -- I don't use Claws mail so not sure about that) that could
> > delete the email, although I would suspect it would end up in a trash
> > folder in which you could find it.

Oops, disregard my answer / comments above, they are misleading / not on point 
-- I didn't read the original post carefully enough.

> The only realistic method that *might* work on many different clients
> would be to embed something in the HTML part. See EFAIL[1] for a past
> example. Even then, you might notice that not all clients were (fully)
> affected[2].
> 
> Also, what would be the point in deleting the message just because it's
> moved to a different folder?
> 
> The only thing that might come close would be Outlook's "recall message"
> feature, though it rarely works properly on Outlook and I seriously
> doubt Claws Mail even supports it.
> 
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFAIL
> [2]
> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/decade-old-efail-at
> tack-can-decrypt-previously-obtained-encrypted-e-mails/
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andrei

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Strange email behaviour................ Charlie <taotraveller@gmail.com> - 2021-07-20 14:30 +0200
  Re: Strange email behaviour................ Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-07-20 15:10 +0200
  Re: Strange email behaviour................ rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-07-20 17:40 +0200
    Re: Strange email behaviour................ Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-07-20 20:30 +0200
      Re: Strange email behaviour................ rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-07-21 00:00 +0200
        Re: Strange email behaviour................ Charlie <taoquester@gmail.com> - 2021-07-23 04:40 +0200

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