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Mahesh Padmanabhan <news@nospam.eml.cc> writes:
> I am using GNUS as an IMAP client and B-del deletes mail as
> expected. I have often felt the need to undelete an email that I
> marked for deletion. I could not find any documentation ( or maybe I
> missed it ) on how to undelete a mail marked for deletion. Does such a
> command exist ?

The terminology here is "deletion" /vs/ "expiry".

When you `B DEL', the message dies immediately, now and forever.
There is no recovery.

If you want something to be scheduled for death, then hit `E' to mark
a message as expirable.  The default expiry interval is one week, at
which point it will be deleted automatically, as though you had hit it
then with `B DEL'.

Many mailers have a concept of a "deleted items" folder but Gnus does
not have that.  It has expiry instead, so that articles due to
disappear will remain where they belong until their expiry interval
arrives.