From: palmieri@math.washington.edu (John H. Palmieri)
Subject: how to delete a recalcitrant message in an IMAP mail group?
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:14:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5t1yk1lxsi.fsf@goedel2.math.washington.edu> (raw)
I posted this to gnu.emacs.gnus, and thought maybe I should post here,
too. I'm using
"Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.106"
updated from cvs yesterday (the most recent entry in the ChangeLog is
2001-10-06).
I'm using gnus and nnimap to read my mail, and I'm having a small
problem. Gnus goes to my mail server, gets my mail, and then splits
it into various mail groups, storing the mail from each group in a
file on the local machine. One of those files has a fairly old
message in it, one which should have been expired, but wasn't. When I
enter that group and try to view all the old messages (C-u RET, then
respond appropriately when it asks how many messages I want to
retrieve), it takes a long time to open, and when it does, that old
message is not visible, so I can't mark it for expiry or delete it.
Can I edit the actual mail file and just delete the offending message?
Can I tell gnus to regenerate some database for that group? How can I
get rid of this message?
(The relevant mail group happens to be for the gnus mailing list, so
as much as I cherish all of your messages, if I have to delete the
whole thing and start over, it won't be a disaster. I'm not even sure
how to do that the right way, though.)
--
J. H. Palmieri
Dept of Mathematics, Box 354350 mailto:palmieri@math.washington.edu
University of Washington http://www.math.washington.edu/~palmieri/
Seattle, WA 98195-4350
next reply other threads:[~2001-10-17 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-17 22:14 John H. Palmieri [this message]
2001-10-18 7:15 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-18 16:54 ` John H. Palmieri
2001-10-18 18:19 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-10-18 19:07 ` John H. Palmieri
2001-10-18 19:16 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-10-18 19:40 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-10-19 21:33 ` fixed (was Re: how to delete a recalcitrant message in an IMAP mail group?) John H. Palmieri
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