ipurge -s option?

[Ken Murchison]

Quoting +archive.info-cyrus at utdallas.edu:

> What about the following?  I was thinking it might be nice if ipurge
> had a -s option for skipping "special" messages.  That is, if you
> flag certain messages as special[*], then run ipurge -s on that
> folder, these flagged messages would not be deleted even if they
> otherwise matched the criteria for being removed.  Thoughts?
> 
> Amos
> 
> *-- some clients refer to flagged messages as "special" or
>     "important". I'm not sure if there's an official name for this.


I doubt that a patch which implemented this would be refused.  Simply checking 
for \Flagged _shouldn't_ be that hard.  In fact, I could see myself using this 
option when purging newsgroups (eg, keep articles which are flagged as 
keepers).

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