Re: Gnus expunge -- force?

[David Masterson <dsmasterson@icloud.com>]

Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com> writes:

> David Masterson <dsmasterson@icloud.com> writes:
>
>> Is there a way I can force an expunge of an nnimap newsgroup? If so,
>> is there a trail I can follow to ensure that the expunge happened
>> locally, was transmitted to the IMAP server, and was acted upon by
>> the IMAP server? I'm not quite understanding the Gnus docs where
>> expunge is concerned. I'm testing a setup where I receive email from
>> GNU mailing lists via IMAP on zohomail.com and send email via SNMP
>> via icloud.com.
>
> Why do you want to do an expunge at all?

By expunge, I mean cleanup old emails.  Talking about this properly is a
little difficult because Gnus has separate definitions for read,
deleted, expired and completely removed.

My issue is that I've subscribed to GNU mailing lists with my new
zohomail.com account.  While generous for a free account, not cleaning
up the old emails will quickly run it out of space.  Zohomail is new to
me and, when I expire ('E') email in Gnus, I see the email in the Zoho
mailer tagged with 'gnus-expire'.  I assume that's how Gnus tracks
expired mail that will be cleaned up at "some later time".  I wanted to
force that cleanup in a controlled way to ensure that the interface
between zohomail and Gnus is working to cleanup old emails.

-- 
David Masterson