Re: nnimap questions

[Andrew J Cosgriff <ajc@bing.wattle.id.au>]

hirsch@mathcs.emory.edu writes:


> > ake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:
> > ...
> Rory Murtagh <rory@tivoli.com> wrote:
> > > Kudos, Simon, for a job extremely well done.
> > > 
> > Yey Simon.  What he said.
> > 
> > > 1) Can we delete mail messages?  How?
> > > 
> > Sure. Expire them as normal and set nnimap-expunge-on-close for each
> > server.
> > 
> > For example
> >        '(nnimap "tivoli"
> > ...
> >           (nnimap-expunge-on-close always))
> 
> Last time I checked this didn't really distinguish between read letters and
> deleted letters.  I want to delete letters only by choice, otherwise leave them
> on the server.  (Unlike news, where I want to not delete articles only if I
> choose so, and delete them after reading by default.)

Perhaps you meant this ? -

B DEL

(DEL as in the "Delete" key) will physically delete an article.  This
is a standard Gnus feature (for mail backends, anyway).

Hope this helps,
 Andrew
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