Re: gmail and gnus-summary-move-article

[George McNinch <gmcninch@gmail.com>]

>> 
>>> Well, you could write a function that calls those two 
>>> functions. :-) 
>>  Right... After writing this, I think I had decided to do 
>>  that. But I 
>> realized that I'm not sure I understand how to 
>> recognize/interact with the process marks, though I confess I 
>> really only had a quick look.  Then I got distracted.  Looking 
>> again, I recall noting that gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable 
>> doesn't interact with the process marks, as-is. (Well, outside 
>> of my perhaps odd-ball proposed usage, there is no reason it 
>> should...) 
 
> Expiration won't actually delete a Gmail message, unless the 
> expiry process moves the message to Trash. 

That was exactly what I proposed in my original post, though.

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>In fact, the usual way I "delete" articles in the gmail account 
>is via expiration: I mark them with E in the summary buffer, and 
>I have a gnus-parameters setting for those accounts which sets  
>      (expiry-target . "nnimap+personal:[Gmail]/Trash") 
> So when I expire articles, they get moved to the "gmail trash", 
>and then gmail regularly prunes its Trash folder without further 
>intervention. 


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