permanently delete mail (nnimap)

permanently delete mail (nnimap)

[Dick Hoogendijk]

I use gnus for nnimap since a short time and I love it very much. It's
a great program. I know how to mark messages for delete and how to
expunge them with 'x' But what I very much like to know is _how_ I can
quickly tag ALL messages in a mailfolder for deletion. This option (if
it exists) I can't find. Not with google, nor in the online manual.

I probably did not search right, but I hope someone here will help me.

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Re: permanently delete mail (nnimap)

[Reiner Steib]

On Sat, Jun 09 2007, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:

> I use gnus for nnimap since a short time and I love it very much. It's
> a great program. I know how to mark messages for delete and how to
> expunge them with 'x' But what I very much like to know is _how_ I can
> quickly tag ALL messages in a mailfolder for deletion. This option (if
> it exists) I can't find. Not with google, nor in the online manual.

`M P b' plus `B DEL'. Or `M P b', `M-&' and `E'. 

,----[ (info "(gnus)Setting Process Marks") ]
| `M P b'
|      Mark all articles in the buffer in the order they appear
|      (`gnus-uu-mark-buffer').
`----

,----[ (info "(gnus)Mail Group Commands") ]
| `B DEL'
|      Delete the mail article.  This is "delete" as in "delete it from
|      your disk forever and ever, never to return again." Use with
|      caution.  (`gnus-summary-delete-article').
`----

,----[ (info "(gnus)Searching for Articles") ]
| `M-&'
|      Perform any operation on all articles that have been marked with
|      the process mark (`gnus-summary-universal-argument').
`----

,----[ (info "(gnus)Setting Marks") ]
| `M e'
| `E'
|      Mark the current article as expirable
|      (`gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable').
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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