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Re: how does gnus delete attachments IMAP
From: |
Maxim Cournoyer |
Subject: |
Re: how does gnus delete attachments IMAP |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:19:45 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:
> I have this email that has four large files attached to it. Using Gnus,
> I deleted all of them - showing me this:
>
> [4. Deleted attachment (466580 bytes) --- text/plain]...
>
> [5. Deleted attachment (11297946 bytes) --- text/plain]...
>
> [6. Deleted attachment (9428994 bytes) --- text/plain]...
>
> [7. Deleted attachment (443779 bytes) --- text/plain]...
>
> Oddly enough, on the IMAP server, the files are still there, in the
> email message. When I look at the specific message, I see, for
> example, this:
>
> --=-=-=
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Content-Disposition: attachment
> Content-Description: Deleted attachment (466580 bytes)
>
> ,----
> | The following attachment has been deleted:
> |
> | Type: application/pdf
> | Filename: 00 - Foom bla-bla.pdf
> | Size (encoded): 466580 bytes
> | Description: 00 - Foom bla-bla.pdf
> `----
>
> --=-=-=
> Content-Type: application/pdf;
>
>
> But it has not actually been deleted.
>
> What did I miss?
Just a guess, but I would expect that you would have to resend the
edited message (with the parts deleted) to see the changes on the
server? Or you could try with a local version (say, a draft) and inspect
that the changes happened locally upon saving the modified draft.
HTH!
Maxim