From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71315 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: More IMAP testing, please Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:51:30 +0200 Organization: not if I can help it Message-ID: References: <87ocbsuu51.fsf@andy.bu.edu> <87iq20ymof.fsf@rimspace.net> <87mxrb313t.fsf@rimspace.net> <87mxrb6nlv.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877hif6mzd.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bp7rt3c8.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285091725 18409 80.91.229.12 (21 Sep 2010 17:55:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:55:25 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M19688@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Sep 21 19:55:22 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 1Oy73p-0005D3-Pj for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:55:22 +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 1Oy73l-00034Q-SA; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:55:18 -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 1Oy73k-000343-4N for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:55:16 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Oy73f-0006Va-Qu for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:55:15 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Oy73f-000081-00 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:55:11 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oy73X-00056x-T9 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:55:03 +0200 Original-Received: from lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net ([81.56.191.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:55:03 +0200 Original-Received: from rpluim by lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:55:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lns-bzn-49f-81-56-191-143.adsl.proxad.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) XEmacs/21.5-b29 (cygwin32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:M26aAz5WUfSCRQy2xuvez/RXGTg= X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71315 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > What we're discussing is how Gnus is to delete articles -- either > expired articles, or just plain deleted articles. The only way to do > that is to mark the articles in the server as \Deleted, and then either > say "UID EXPUNGE", which will, er, delete the articles, or just say > "EXPUNGE", which will delete all \Delete-marked articles in the group. > > I'm not sure whether the latter is naughty or not. It's tempting to do, > because it's so easy, but I have no idea what IMAP users expect to > happen. > I expect it to happen :) > This only affects users of older versions of Dovecot of the major > server types in use at present, I think. And whatever variant of Exchange I happen to be talking to, which I think is 2003. (unless we're missing some magic incantation to make Exchange speak 'modern' IMAP, which is always possible). Regards Robert