Re: G g and delete mails with Emacs

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> since threads are not a super reliable way to find all messages related
> to a discussion, I decided to try to delete related messages in my
> INBOX (consulted via imap) like the following:
>
> I use G g to create a search group, open it, process mark the messages I
> want to archive, and use b to move the messages to my local archive
> folder.
>
> But after that procedure, those messages are still available in my INBOX
> (and displayed prefixed with "O").
>
> Is there a way to vary this procedure so that those messages on the imap
> server are deleted?

I'm not the one to make this decision, but this sounds like it might be
potentially surprising behavior to users, maybe something that should be
behind a user option similar to `nnselect-allow-ephemeral-expiry'.