Re: Deleted messages don't go away

[Wolfram Fenske <Wolfram.Fenske@Student.Uni-Magdeburg.DE>]

gdt@work.lexort.com writes:

> David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
>
>> I keep seeing some messages in my NNIMAP groups even long after I've
>> removed them using a different mail client.  Is there some way to get
>> Gnus to forget what it thinks it knows so the record can be accurate
>> again?
>
> I had this problem too, and turned off the agent.  Then gnus seems to
> no longer remember the stale messages.
>
> I suspect this is a cache-consistency issue arising from the
> newsreader focus of Gnus, where articles don't (properly) go away.

I agree that it's a cache issue.  A while back, when this problem got
really bad for me (hundreds of ghost emails), I deleted everything in
~/News/agent/nnimap and the dead articles were gone.  I think Dave
Goldberg's workaround might be better, though.

This problem might not arise if I used just one mail client on one
computer but that's not possible for me.  In fact, that's the whole
reason I'm using IMAP.  Ironic, isn't it?

> [...]


Regards
Wolfram