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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.

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-attack-can-decrypt-previously-obtained-encrypted-e-mails/

Kind regards,
Andrei
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