From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnus INBOX housekeeping, kept (copies of) mail lying around
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:17:16 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mesz35v.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3hw70ee.fsf@hillenius.net>
Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:
> Doing some Gnus imap folders housekeeping this morning, I found that
> 8000 messages (called 131940. 131941. etcetera) /hiding/ in the imap's
> INBOX. It looks like these are all emails that I've 'deleted' in Gnus,
> so they don't show. But for some reason they're not actually deleted.
>
> Is this a setting I messed up? I recall there used to be such a feature,
> but I don't remember what that was called. I've been searching the
> manual for this, so far without the result I hoped to find.
>
> I would appreciate a few hints.
That doesn't sound normal no matter what, but perhaps you can check your
expunge settings? Either way, my guess is the solution to your problem
will have the word "expunge" in it :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-05 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-05 11:04 Gijs Hillenius
2016-01-05 11:17 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2016-01-05 11:26 ` CHENG Gao
2016-01-05 12:38 ` Gijs Hillenius
2016-01-05 12:54 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.1737.1451998456.843.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-01-05 13:07 ` Gijs Hillenius
2016-01-05 13:24 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.1740.1452000295.843.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-01-05 14:16 ` Gijs Hillenius
2016-01-05 14:48 ` Gijs Hillenius
2016-01-05 15:11 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.1745.1452006719.843.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-01-07 7:28 ` Gijs Hillenius
2016-01-07 8:54 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.1877.1452156877.843.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-01-07 9:14 ` Gijs Hillenius
2016-01-07 14:03 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.1882.1452175419.843.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-01-08 7:54 ` is this a bug in gnus v5.13? " Gijs Hillenius
2016-01-08 10:33 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.1947.1452249217.843.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-01-08 11:27 ` Gijs Hillenius
2016-01-09 4:02 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-01-09 9:44 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-01-11 6:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-01-11 9:28 ` Adam Sjøgren
[not found] ` <mailman.2029.1452332680.843.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-01-11 9:29 ` Gijs Hillenius
2016-01-11 9:33 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-01-11 9:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.2130.1452505220.843.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-01-11 11:34 ` Gijs Hillenius
2016-01-11 11:48 ` Adam Sjøgren
[not found] ` <mailman.2136.1452512951.843.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-01-11 12:54 ` Gijs Hillenius
2016-01-11 13:18 ` Gijs Hillenius
2016-01-11 15:47 ` Adam Sjøgren
[not found] ` <mailman.2152.1452527287.843.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2016-01-18 8:08 ` FIXED " Gijs Hillenius
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