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Re: really deleting an nnimap message
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: really deleting an nnimap message |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:00:05 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
marklar <markprice@gmail.com> writes:
Hi Marklar,
> I'm using emacs22 with nnimap, and am having trouble fully deleting a
> message.
I think that's your problem:
,----[ (info "(gnus)IMAP") ]
| `nnimap-expunge-on-close'
| Unlike Parmenides the IMAP designers have decided things that
| don't exist actually do exist. More specifically, IMAP has this
| concept of marking articles `Deleted' which doesn't actually
| delete them, and this (marking them `Deleted', that is) is what
| nnimap does when you delete an article in Gnus (with `B DEL' or
| similar).
|
| Since the articles aren't really removed when we mark them with the
| `Deleted' flag we'll need a way to actually delete them. Feel like
| running in circles yet?
|
| Traditionally, nnimap has removed all articles marked as `Deleted'
| when closing a mailbox but this is now configurable by this server
| variable.
|
| The possible options are:
|
| `always'
| The default behavior, delete all articles marked as "Deleted"
| when closing a mailbox.
|
| `never'
| Never actually delete articles. Currently there is no way of
| showing the articles marked for deletion in nnimap, but other
| IMAP clients may allow you to do this. If you ever want to
| run the EXPUNGE command manually, *Note Expunging mailboxes::.
|
| `ask'
| When closing mailboxes, nnimap will ask if you wish to
| expunge deleted articles or not.
`----
Bye,
Tassilo