From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70764 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: That newfangled IMAP thing... Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:24:58 +1000 Message-ID: <878w368e3p.fsf@rimspace.net> References: <87hbi3jasy.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87pqwmsusz.fsf@news.realpath.org> <8762yd6j4j.fsf@rimspace.net> <87eid0fsil.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bp84y00w.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <878w374b0m.fsf@rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284352564 32351 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2010 04:36:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:36:04 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M19137@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Sep 13 06:36:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ov0ls-0002Ds-3N for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:36:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ov0lG-0001bN-MK; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:35:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ov0lF-0001b3-5f for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:35:21 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ov0l0-0003N0-R5 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:35:21 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ov0l0-0002UM-00 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:35:06 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ov0kx-00022r-FJ for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au ([203.214.67.82]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from daniel by sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:35:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Cms64SxsMqjW56PeXK3kfPiAKqI= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70764 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Daniel Pittman writes: > >> Watch out: an unconditional EXPUNGE here might not do what the user >> expects, since it will destroy all mail deleted, not just the stuff >> that Gnus handled. > > Well, just from the INBOX, surely? Oh. Sorry, yes, just from the INBOX mailbox, indeed. > If you have defined one group as an, er, inbox inbox, then you want to > delete everything after splitting the messages to the other groups. > Otherwise it doesn't make sense... I, like many IMAP users, treat my INBOX as precisely that: it collects things that are not sent elsewhere. It is not empty, but instead what is commonly considered the "Inbox", where everything "else" goes. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ daniel@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons