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* Re: Expunging nnimap mail from server?
       [not found] ` <0nr8e6a3ce.fsf@qiuranke.phony.washington.edu>
@ 2002-10-31 23:22   ` Simon Josefsson
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From: Simon Josefsson @ 2002-10-31 23:22 UTC (permalink / raw)


Michael Na Li <lina@u.washington.edu> writes:

> On 17 Oct 2002, marc bumble stated:
>
>>  
>>  Hi,
>>  
>>  I can successfully retrieve my email using the following elisp, but the
>>  expunge  function does  not  seem to  work  when I  close  out?  I  am
>>  probably doing something simple  incorrectly?  Old messages are simply
>>  not being  erased from  the server.  How  do I  do that with  gnus and
>>  nnimap?
>
> I started to have the same problem sometime ago after I'd updated Emacs and
> Gnus at some point.  When I enter and then exit an imap group, I see this 
> in the *imap-log* buffer,
>
> 432 EXAMINE "mail/R-help"

How do you enter the group?  EXAMINE is IMAP-speak for read-only, but
Gnus should use SELECT (read-write) when entering groups.


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