Re: Expire and Delete again

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

Jody Klymak <jklymak@apl.washington.edu> writes:

>     JK> IMHO Gnus idea of expiry is much more similar to the imap
>     JK> concept of delete than Gnus idea of deletion.  If Gnus delete
>     JK> something it's gone immediately and there is no way of
>     JK> recovering.
> 
> Well, almost.  There is no way in IMAP to EXPUNGE only some of the
> messages marked \Delete.  It deletes them all.

Just remove the \Deleted mark on articles you don't want to have
removed, run EXPUNGE, restore the \Deleted mark on the articles.

Schemes like this is documented in a "IMAP implementation
recomendation" drafts or something. I don't think they are elegant,
but they work.