From: Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how does gnus delete attachments IMAP
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:07:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmlv8wcp.fsf@uwo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2v17u3x.fsf@hillenius.net>
On Sep 20, 2017, Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> wrote:
> I have this email that has four large files attached to it. Using Gnus,
> I deleted all of them
[...]
> Oddly enough, on the IMAP server, the files are still there, in the
> email message.
[...]
> What did I miss?
With IMAP, messages cannot be edited. To work around this, Gnus will
typically create a new message without the attachments. How Gnus treats
the original seems inconsistent to me. Sometimes it is deleted, but
sometimes it sticks around, in which case I mark it as expirable, so it
will get deleted later.
Dan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-28 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-20 6:38 Gijs Hillenius
2017-09-27 20:19 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-09-28 1:07 ` Dan Christensen [this message]
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