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Re: Deleting mail by region
From: |
Clay Haapala |
Subject: |
Re: Deleting mail by region |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:31:15 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110001 (No Gnus v0.1) XEmacs/21.5 (chayote, linux) |
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Reiner Steib wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21 2004, Clay Haapala wrote:
>
>> I use an nnimap backend to read my mail under XEmacs 2.5.17. In
>> ngnus-0.1 and, I believe, in 5.10.6, deleting mail by region
>> (highlight region, B del) has stopped working.
>
> In which version of Gnus _did_ this work? I'm not aware of any
> changes in this area in the last years (but I might have missed it,
> of course). I also would probably consider it as a misfeature.
>
Well, I'm sure of the last few Oorts, under earlier XEmacs betas, of
course, and the first subsequent "official" releases.
>> The correct number of highlighted articles is given in the "Are you
>> sure you want to delete" prompt.
>
> I get "this article", i.e. singular.
>
When I highlight, say, four articles, I am prompted if I want to
delete four articles.
>> Deleting articles by count works as expected,
>
> You can use `M P r' (gnus-uu-mark-region) to process mark the
> article before deleting.
>
It is good to be reminded of the power of "Process mark" :-)
>> though I do notice that every delete now runs an "Expire" sequence,
>> which is kind of slow.
>
> ?
>
> Bye, Reiner.
I meant to say that an "expire" process happens, similar, if not
identical, to when one leaves a group.
For example, if I want to delete the 5 articles at my cursor point,
and type ^U 5 B <del>, I'm prompted, as expected, about whether or not
I am sure I want to permanently delete the articles. Saying "yes",
messages are printed about "Expiring articles on <the server>",
"Sorting", then
Expiry recovered 4 NOV entries, deleted 0 files, and freed 1.241211 KB.
100% completed...
99% completed...
98% completed...
97% completed...
[ ... omitted ... ]
6% completed...
5% completed...
4% completed...
3% completed...
2% completed...
This process takes several seconds, which makes the morning's SPAM
deletion a little tedious. (I will now try using marks and one delete
operation.) In Oort gnus, I believe the delete was nigh
instantaneous, so something has changed, doubtless to make operations
more correct, but I thought I would ask about it.
Hope this explanation helps some. Thank you for replying.
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