From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: G g and delete mails with Emacs
Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 10:00:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtfqprnm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bkwaqibi.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sat, 07 May 2022 02:48:01 +0200")
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> Hello,
>
> since threads are not a super reliable way to find all messages related
> to a discussion, I decided to try to delete related messages in my
> INBOX (consulted via imap) like the following:
>
> I use G g to create a search group, open it, process mark the messages I
> want to archive, and use b to move the messages to my local archive
> folder.
>
> But after that procedure, those messages are still available in my INBOX
> (and displayed prefixed with "O").
>
> Is there a way to vary this procedure so that those messages on the imap
> server are deleted?
I'm not the one to make this decision, but this sounds like it might be
potentially surprising behavior to users, maybe something that should be
behind a user option similar to `nnselect-allow-ephemeral-expiry'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-09 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-07 0:48 Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-09 17:00 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2022-05-10 4:05 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-10 4:57 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-05-12 2:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-12 5:08 ` Fetching articles by id (was: G g and delete mails with Emacs) Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-13 4:29 ` Fetching articles by id Michael Heerdegen
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