Re: nnimap refuses to delete mail

[Guido Van Hoecke <Guido.Van_Hoecke@alcatel.be>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> Guido Van Hoecke <Guido.VanHoecke@advalvas.be> writes:
> 
> > The nnimap under Gnus v5.8.3 never removes any of my mail
> > messages. It pretends to do so, does never complain, but when I
> > revisit my Inbox (or any other imap folder from which I have
> > removed messages, either via 'G Del' or via
> > 'B m some-other-imap-folder') all messages that were supposed to
> > be removed are still there.
> 
> It might be a bug. Could you evaluate `(setq imap-log "*imap-log*")',
> enter some group, delete some articles, leave the group, enter the
> group again and verify that the supposedly deleted articles in fact
> are still there, and then mail me the content of the *imap-log*
> buffer?
> 
> Btw, what's the value of your `nnimap-expunge-on-close' variable?

nnimap-expunge-on-close's value is 
'always

The contents of the '*imap-log* buffer' after visiting my inbox,
deleteing (G Del) three messages and q(uitting) the inbox as well as
the groups screen is as copied hereafter (Note that the 3 messages are
still in my inbox) (Note2: I have removed the Ctrl-M at the end of
each log-buffer line, changed password and server-name):

* OK myServer IMAP4rev1 v12.250 server ready
1 CAPABILITY
* CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4REV1 NAMESPACE IDLE SCAN SORT MAILBOX-REFERRALS LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=LOGIN THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
1 OK CAPABILITY completed
2 LOGIN "hoeckeg" "password"
2 OK LOGIN completed
3 EXAMINE "imap/3news"
* 16 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 910211527] UID validity status
* OK [UIDNEXT 6531] Predicted next UID
* FLAGS (gnus-expire gnus-dormant \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Permanent flags
* OK [UNSEEN 16] first unseen message in /home/users/hoeckeg/imap/3news
3 OK [READ-ONLY] EXAMINE completed
4 FETCH 1,* UID
* 1 FETCH (UID 6515)
* 16 FETCH (UID 6530)
4 OK FETCH completed
5 EXAMINE "INBOX"
* 30 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 945544378] UID validity status
* OK [UIDNEXT 746] Predicted next UID
* FLAGS (gnus-expire \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Permanent flags
* OK [UNSEEN 29] first unseen message in /var/mail/hoeckeg
5 OK [READ-ONLY] EXAMINE completed
6 FETCH 1,* UID
* 1 FETCH (UID 501)
* 30 FETCH (UID 745)
6 OK FETCH completed
7 SELECT "INBOX"
* 30 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 945544378] UID validity status
* OK [UIDNEXT 746] Predicted next UID
* FLAGS (gnus-expire \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (gnus-expire \* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)] Permanent flags
* OK [UNSEEN 29] first unseen message in /var/mail/hoeckeg
7 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
8 UID SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED
* SEARCH 744 745
8 OK UID SEARCH completed
9 UID SEARCH SEEN
* SEARCH 501 530 572 717 720 721 722 723 724 725 726 727 728 729 730 731 732 733 734 735 736 737 738 739 740 741 742 743
9 OK UID SEARCH completed
10 UID SEARCH FLAGGED
* SEARCH
10 OK UID SEARCH completed
11 UID SEARCH ANSWERED
* SEARCH 731 732 736 738 740 743
11 OK UID SEARCH completed
12 UID SEARCH KEYWORD gnus-expire
* SEARCH
12 OK UID SEARCH completed
13 UID SEARCH UID 501:745
* SEARCH 501 530 572 717 720 721 722 723 724 725 726 727 728 729 730 731 732 733 734 735 736 737 738 739 740 741 742 743 744 745
13 OK UID SEARCH completed
14 UID STORE 732 +FLAGS (\Deleted)
* 17 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen \Deleted \Answered) UID 732)
14 OK UID STORE completed
15 UID STORE 728 +FLAGS (\Deleted)
* 13 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen \Deleted) UID 728)
15 OK UID STORE completed
16 UID STORE 729 +FLAGS (\Deleted)
* 14 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen \Deleted) UID 729)
16 OK UID STORE completed
17 EXAMINE "INBOX"
* 30 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 945544378] UID validity status
* OK [UIDNEXT 746] Predicted next UID
* FLAGS (gnus-expire \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Permanent flags
* OK [UNSEEN 29] first unseen message in /var/mail/hoeckeg
17 OK [READ-ONLY] EXAMINE completed
18 CLOSE
18 OK CLOSE completed
19 LOGOUT
* BYE myServer IMAP4rev1 server terminating connection
19 OK LOGOUT completed