From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Switching to IMAP
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 14:44:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200005041244.OAA03906@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Chris D.Halverson"'s message of "03 May 2000 09:41:02 -0500"
"Chris D.Halverson" <cdh@CompleteIS.com> writes:
> I can't seem to find it, but currently my nnml groups expire after 7
> days if marked w/ 'E', ie. I can go back and see "deleted" messages
> which is very helpful at times. It doesn't appear that this is
> possible w/ nnimap, correct?
This is not correct. The `expirable' mark works fine with nnimap. I
use it every day.
Potential problem: the `expirable' mark is specific to nnimap, and
other IMAP clients don't know about it. Therefore, the other clients
won't do expiration (which isn't a problem, I guess). I'm not sure
whether another IMAP client might remove the expirable mark because it
doesn't understand it -- I hope not.
The problem with `deleted' messages is different: there is an IMAP
message flag `\Deleted' which is used by other IMAP clients to mark
messages for deletion. Later, they do an expunge operation which
deletes all the messages flagged `\Deleted'. nnimap can't show any
messages flagged `\Deleted'.
The `\Deleted' flag has nothing to do with expiry, though. That's a
different flag.
kai
--
Beware of flying birch trees.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-04 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-03 14:41 Chris D.Halverson
2000-05-03 17:13 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-05-03 17:23 ` Chris D.Halverson
2000-05-04 12:44 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2000-05-04 13:01 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-05-04 14:26 ` Justin Sheehy
2000-05-04 15:16 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-04 13:12 ` Chris D.Halverson
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