From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32888 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjoha?= =?iso-8859-1?q?nn?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Deleting mail with nnimap Date: 18 Oct 2000 17:07:19 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <76og0i1dh1.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169095 22295 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:58:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29DDD051E for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:09:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAB09878; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:08:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:08:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04273 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:07:53 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E00D051E for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:08:17 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id RAA27735; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:07:20 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id RAA15009; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:07:19 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id RAA11783; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:07:19 +0200 Original-To: Jake Colman X-Face: /B3twq_DELA4]7alR?%xv(/f1N;bi:NN=UlA=(1a"pKte&5/Y/9*z&8q[P}+}YgJX_9*}k_ 0E|EJBC~yEok<#VOw:9GQWq1-;PCR-hd;3|Vk]~"|EM{Q5ir5nr!HzZ,W4\k5G|QWHw45gQ*tWydTR , User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.0.90 Original-Lines: 34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32888 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32888 On 18 Oct 2000, Jake Colman wrote: > > I don't want this to be done automatically, but how do I physically > delete an email - if I choose - after having read it? I would want > the mail deleted from the IMAP Server never to be seen again. The preferred way to delete mails is to mark them as expirable. You can do this with `E'. Another way is to use auto-expire which means that Gnus hits `E' for you when you read a message. A third way is to use total-expire which means that all messages marked as read are also considered expirable. (Note the subtle difference between auto-expire and total-expire.) Expiration works as follows: you mark a message as expirable. Sometime later, expiry is run, which means that old expirable articles are physically deleted. You can run expiry explicitly, or you can exit a group with `q' which by default also runs expiry for that group. The variable nnmail-expiry-wait determines which messages are considered `old'. Rather than marking messages as expirable you can also use a sledgehammer and physically delete them right away, using `B DEL'. The term `physically delete' means that a file is removed from the disk for the normal mail backends, but for nnimap, another step of indirection is involved: they are flagged as `\Deleted' on the IMAP server, and an EXPUNGE operation deletes the files of the messages flagged as `\Deleted'. The variable nnimap-expunge-on-close determines whether or not EXPUNGE is done when you exit a group using `q'. kai -- I like BOTH kinds of music.