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From: Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: expunge mails
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 10:21:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obpp4zxu.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878vgtj261.fsf@cica.cica>

Petro Khoroshyy writes:

> Hi William
> William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com> writes:
>> Petro Khoroshyy <khoroshyy@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi list.
>>> I am very ashamed, but I cannot figure out how to expunge expired mails
>>> from imap account. Some time ago I have seen  a command to do it, but
>>> cannot remember it now.
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>> Petro.
>>
>> Petro,
>>
>> I use `E' to mark IMAP messages expirable and `B e' to expunge them.
> Thanks for your reply. I am now closer to what I want. "B e" some how
> does not delete mails marked as "E". May be I have some settings
> missing. However, I do have nnmail-expire-wait set to 7 and
> nnimap-expunge-on-close set to ask. If I understand
> it correctly with such setup it has to ask me if I want to delete all
> messages marked as "E" seven and more days ago. What do I miss?
> I can delete a message using "B del". I remember using  more complicated
> command and deleting all messages marked as expired.

gnus-summary-expire-articles-now ?

-- 
Alberto

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-15  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-14 20:13 Petro Khoroshyy
2012-05-14 20:28 ` William Gardella
2012-05-15  8:09   ` Petro Khoroshyy
2012-05-15  8:21     ` Alberto Luaces [this message]
2012-05-15 12:07       ` Petro Khoroshyy

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