Jens Krinke writes : > Or why not make it configurable to use gnus-expire or \Deleted? These are two different marks: use E (M-x gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable) to mark a message as expirable (i.e mark it with gnus-expire) and B delete (M-x gnus-summary-delete-article) to nuke an article (i.e mark is as \Deleted). Kim-Minh.