From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Deleting Messages from an IMAP Folder
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:12:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861w5562cb.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y77kwo6w.fsf@denkblock.local> (Elias Oltmanns's message of "Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:50:15 +0200")
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:50:15 +0200 Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de> wrote:
EO> Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> wrote:
>> How do I delete a read message from an IMAP folder? if I press the DEL
>> key, the 'R' becomes an 'r' but the message does not actually get
>> deleted when I exit the folder.
EO> Have you tried B-DEL?
An alternative approach is to mark articles as expired (`E'). Just make
sure nnimap-expunge-on-close is not overridden from the default 'always,
and every time you close the group those expired articles will be
expunged (in IMAP terms). They are really marked as \Deleted on the
server before EXPUNGE, but that's an implementation detail. There's two
parameters that affect this, auto-expire and total-expire, that you can
use to control this process.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-16 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-11 12:37 Jake Colman
2008-04-11 12:50 ` Elias Oltmanns
2008-04-16 19:12 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2008-04-16 23:22 ` Greg Troxel
2008-04-17 18:06 ` Jake Colman
2008-04-17 19:25 ` Zlatko Calusic
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