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From: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Welty)
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Subject: Re: RMAIL issues
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Date: 7 Apr 89 18:06:23 GMT
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In article <8904051732.AA04096@vega.crg.bull.fr> Stavros.Macrakis@crg.bull.fr writes:
>In GNU Emacs 18.50.3 of Wed Aug 17 1988 on rigel (usg-unix-v):
>
>2. I would like to suppress the "expunge" operation.  When I "Delete"
>a piece of mail, I want it to act deleted, but never be expunged.
>There should be a special "really kill it" command....

It seems easy enough to use the `o' (rmail-output-to-rmail-file)
command to save files you want to `delete' in an alternate rmail file,
and keep that file compressed or something.

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