From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17895 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gijs Hillenius Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus INBOX housekeeping, kept (copies of) mail lying around Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:38:44 +0100 Organization: Using Emacs' Org Mode Message-ID: <878u446w17.fsf@hillenius.net> References: <87r3hw70ee.fsf@hillenius.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451997615 29908 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2016 12:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 12:40:15 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 13:40:15 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aGQuG-0005s6-Uz for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:40:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49235 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGQuG-000408-8T for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 07:40:08 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!nzpost1.xs4all.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux Sid X-Homepage: http://www.hillenius.net/ X-GPG-Fingerprint: 340F F9A4 8F6C 18FD D032 0C33 ABA1 CB30 E997 A3AF User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qzbXhXg7lJPodoqb2dNQN4K9PHk= Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.76.204.189 Original-X-Trace: 1451997524 news.xs4all.nl 23723 himaan/144.76.204.189:59626 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:89025 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17895 Archived-At: On 5 Jan 2016, Gijs Hillenius wrote: > > 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. encouraged by the two replies... I just sent myself two emails (from a throw-away gmail account), and notice that these messages end up on the system twice. My nnimap-split-fancy places them in the correct nnimap mail group, but a "copy" (or perhaps the original) stays in the INBOX, hidden. Does that ring a bell, with anyone? -- BOFH excuse #320: You've been infected by the Telescoping Hubble virus.