Gnus expunge -- force?

Gnus expunge -- force?

[David Masterson]

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.

-- 
David Masterson

Re: Gnus expunge -- force?

[Joel Reicher]

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?

The reason I ask is that by "expunge" I *think* (but am not sure) 
you are referring to an IMAP operation that has nothing to do with 
Gnus at all (beyond the need for Gnus' IMAP code needing to handle 
the operation correctly).

But it's possible you are not referring to this, and perhaps the 
easiest way to figure it out is to know why you want to do "it".

Regards,

        - Joel

Re: Gnus expunge -- force?

[David Masterson]

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