Re: IMAP server keeps forgetting the expiry marks

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:54:13 -0500 Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> wrote: 

DC> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> Can you check if the same thing happens if you mark a message expirable
>> in the INBOX (you have to disable any Trash rules) with Thunderbird or
>> some other IMAP client, then come back later?

DC> Do any other IMAP clients have the concept of "expirable"?  I thought
DC> most of them just moved the message to the Trash folder, which is either
DC> emptied manually or automatically.  But this doesn't involve any message
DC> flags.  In contrast, Gnus uses the imap flag "gnus-expire" to mark
DC> messages as expirable.

I was wrong, says nnimap.el:

(defconst nnimap-mark-to-flag-alist
  (mapcar
   (lambda (pair)
     (or (assoc (cdr pair)
                '((read . "\\Seen")
                  (tick . "\\Flagged")
                  (draft . "\\Draft")
                  (recent . "\\Recent")
                  (reply . "\\Answered")))
         (cons (cdr pair)
               (format "gnus-%s" (symbol-name (cdr pair))))))
   (cons '(read . read) gnus-article-mark-lists)))

Sorry for the confusion.

Ted