From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1399 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Expunging nnimap mail from server? Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:22:56 +0100 Message-ID: References: <0nr8e6a3ce.fsf@qiuranke.phony.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668182 11147 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:43:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:43:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:06 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1036106864 24519 217.13.230.178 (31 Oct 2002 23:27:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Oct 2002 23:27:44 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NHnXy74rwxSPNPYA9o2OF5uFflE= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1539 Original-Lines: 21 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1539 Tue Jan 17 17:29:06 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1399 Archived-At: Michael Na Li 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.