Re: really deleting an nnimap message

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

marklar <markprice@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Marklar,

> I'm using emacs22 with nnimap, and am having trouble fully deleting a
> message.

I think that's your problem:

,----[ (info "(gnus)IMAP") ]
| `nnimap-expunge-on-close'
|      Unlike Parmenides the IMAP designers have decided things that
|      don't exist actually do exist.  More specifically, IMAP has this
|      concept of marking articles `Deleted' which doesn't actually
|      delete them, and this (marking them `Deleted', that is) is what
|      nnimap does when you delete an article in Gnus (with `B DEL' or
|      similar).
| 
|      Since the articles aren't really removed when we mark them with the
|      `Deleted' flag we'll need a way to actually delete them.  Feel like
|      running in circles yet?
| 
|      Traditionally, nnimap has removed all articles marked as `Deleted'
|      when closing a mailbox but this is now configurable by this server
|      variable.
| 
|      The possible options are:
| 
|     `always'
|           The default behavior, delete all articles marked as "Deleted"
|           when closing a mailbox.
| 
|     `never'
|           Never actually delete articles.  Currently there is no way of
|           showing the articles marked for deletion in nnimap, but other
|           IMAP clients may allow you to do this.  If you ever want to
|           run the EXPUNGE command manually, *Note Expunging mailboxes::.
| 
|     `ask'
|           When closing mailboxes, nnimap will ask if you wish to
|           expunge deleted articles or not.
`----

Bye,
Tassilo