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 -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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