From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18732 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dan Christensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: how does gnus delete attachments IMAP Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:07:02 -0400 Message-ID: <87bmlv8wcp.fsf@uwo.ca> References: <87r2v17u3x.fsf@hillenius.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506560845 27059 195.159.176.226 (28 Sep 2017 01:07:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 01:07:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 28 03:07:21 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dxNIM-0006YO-Cf for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 03:07:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56879 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxNIT-0008IA-IO for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:07:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55985) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxNIO-0008Hu-Dp for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:07:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxNIJ-0007g6-Go for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38531 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxNIJ-0007fe-9S for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dxNI8-0005Xw-Q6 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 03:07:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:wJpcKcwhQaWNmdD4ZvilOMa9tjM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18732 Archived-At: On Sep 20, 2017, Gijs Hillenius 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