* gnus-del-mark vs gnus-expirable-mark
@ 2003-10-30 23:30 Jake Colman
2003-10-31 16:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
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From: Jake Colman @ 2003-10-30 23:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
If I mark a message using 'd', I get the gnus-del-mark. When/how do those
messages actually get deleted? How does this differ from
gnus-expirable-mark where the message gets deleted after the expiration time?
Aren't they effectively the same?
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* Re: gnus-del-mark vs gnus-expirable-mark
2003-10-30 23:30 gnus-del-mark vs gnus-expirable-mark Jake Colman
@ 2003-10-31 16:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
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From: Ted Zlatanov @ 2003-10-31 16:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, colman@ppllc.com wrote:
> If I mark a message using 'd', I get the gnus-del-mark. When/how do
> those messages actually get deleted? How does this differ from
> gnus-expirable-mark where the message gets deleted after the
> expiration time? Aren't they effectively the same?
Think of the deleted mark as deleting the article from the summary
view - more like a "this has been read" mark. I think that because
Gnus is somewhat newsreader-oriented, deletions are not quite as
deadly as they are on mail-oriented MUAs. On a news server, you can't
actually delete an article (normally).
The delete/expire metaphor works nicely for IMAP, because there you
also have a distinction between "has been read" and "to be deleted"
marks on articles.
Ted
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