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From: Rajeev Gore <rajeev.gore@anu.edu.au>
To: ding@gnus.org, rpg <rajeev.gore@anu.edu.au>
Subject: gnus-summary-delete-article: The current newsgroup does not support article deletion
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:46:23 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735q6pkkw.fsf@anu.edu.au> (raw)


Hi all,

I am a newcomer to gnus as a mail-reader but am familiar with emacs
itself.

I have around 7000 emails in my Inbox and most of them are marked E for
expirable as I do so deliberately.

I have not set auto-expire or any other expire feature but wish to rely
on emacs to delete the Expired emails automatically after 7 days.

But the emails are not being deleted at all.

The first thing I checked was the permissions on the Inbox and I
definitely have read and write permission. Nobody else does.

Moreover, B e also does not work but gives me the message in the subject
line:
gnus-summary-delete-article: The current newsgroup does not support article deletion.

I have RTFMed and done quite a lot of searching on the web to no avail.

I suspect that I need to set some magical variable that I do not know
about, but am at a loss.

Any help appreciated.

thanks,
raj



             reply	other threads:[~2021-09-15 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-15  3:46 Rajeev Gore [this message]
2021-09-16  7:48 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-09-23 11:31 Rajeev Gore
2021-09-23 11:41 ` Rajeev Gore
2021-09-23 11:45   ` Rajeev Gore
2021-09-23 15:38   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-09-24  4:07     ` Rajeev Gore

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