Re: Deleting Messages from an IMAP Folder

[Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com>]

  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)))


Now, gnus behaves like a normal mailreader, and pushing 'd' moves the
message to my Trash folder.  If I were more together, I'd pass optional
arguments so I could use the process mark or arguments with d, but I
haven't gotten a round tuit.