In NeoMutt, when you “delete” an email it is first marked deleted. The email isn't really gone until <sync-mailbox>is called. This happens when the user leaves the folder, or the function is called manually.

After <sync-mailbox> has been called the email is gone forever.

The $trash variable defines a folder in which to keep old emails. As before, first you mark emails for deletion. When <sync-mailbox> is called the emails are moved to the trash folder.

The $trash path can be either a full directory, or be relative to the $folder variable, like the mailboxes command.

# Example NeoMutt config file for the 'trash' feature.

# This feature defines a new 'trash' folder.

# When mail is deleted it will be moved to this folder.

# Folder in which to put deleted emails
set trash='+Trash'
set trash='/home/flatcap/Mail/Trash'
# The default delete key 'd' will move an email to the 'trash' folder
# Bind 'D' to REALLY delete an email
bind index D purge-message
# Note: Deleting emails from the 'trash' folder will REALLY delete them.

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Cedric Duval, Benjamin Kuperman, Paul Miller, Richard Russon