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Re: how does gnus delete attachments IMAP
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Dan Christensen |
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Re: how does gnus delete attachments IMAP |
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Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:07:02 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
On Sep 20, 2017, Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> wrote:
> I have this email that has four large files attached to it. Using Gnus,
> I deleted all of them
[...]
> Oddly enough, on the IMAP server, the files are still there, in the
> email message.
[...]
> What did I miss?
With IMAP, messages cannot be edited. To work around this, Gnus will
typically create a new message without the attachments. How Gnus treats
the original seems inconsistent to me. Sometimes it is deleted, but
sometimes it sticks around, in which case I mark it as expirable, so it
will get deleted later.
Dan