Re: Deleting Messages from an IMAP Folder

[Zlatko Calusic <zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr>]

Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com> writes:

>   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.
>
> I read mail in IMAP, and want to use for my inbox the explicit delete
> approach, as opposed to the auto-expirable approach.  And, I want things
> to go away immediately, not be marked expirable, since the point of
> deleting is to stop seeing them.  I also use thunderbird against the
> same server.
>
> So I have the following in my .emacs, more or less (plus scoring
> functions that you or someone might find useful, but aren't relevant to
> your question):
>
>
> (setq gdt-trash-newsgroup "nnimap+my.server.name:Trash")
>
> (defun gdt-gnus-move-to-trash ()
>   (interactive)
>   (gnus-summary-move-article nil gdt-trash-newsgroup))
>
> (defalias 'score-subject-fuzzy-lower-next
>   (read-kbd-macro "Lsft RET n"))
> (defalias 'score-subject-fuzzy-lower-nextscore
>   (read-kbd-macro "Lsft RET ,"))
>
> (add-hook
>  'gnus-summary-mode-hook
>  (lambda ()
>    (local-set-key "k" 'score-subject-fuzzy-lower-next)
>    (local-set-key "\v" 'score-subject-fuzzy-lower-nextscore)
>    (local-set-key "d" 'gdt-gnus-move-to-trash)))
>

Thank you Greg, I was looking for some simple solution like this, too.
-- 
Zlatko