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Deleting... the concept
The current mail message (the one displayed in the RMAIL buffer) will
be deleted if you type d; rmail will attempt to visit
the next message. Alternately, you can type C-d; when this is
used after deleting the message rmail attempts to visit the
previous message. However, as long as you haven't expunged the
deleted messages, the deletion isn't permanent. Typing u will
attempt to undelete the current message; if it is not successful (i.e.
the current message wasn't deleted), it will try earlier messages
until it finds a deleted message to undelete. A deleted message could
become the current message in several ways. M-n and M-p
behave like n and p except they will even visit deleted
messages. Also, j will jump to a message regardless of
whether or not it has been deleted. The deletions will be made
permanent when you expunge the RMAIL file using e; this
is also automatically done when you exit rmail or save the
RMAIL file.
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