Delete a message in Gmail Inbox

KeDal kedals0 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 23 14:44:07 GMT 2011


The language of my Gmail mailbox was french and imap folder names are
not same than in english.
Even with realdelete option, it was impossible to delete a message from
INBOX (and I've explicitly specified trash folder name).

I've solved the problem by switching to english language. Then, it works.

Dal.


On 21/11/2011 14:23, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:36:03 +0100, KeDal <kedals0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> When I delete a message from Sent local maildir folder with mutt (that's
>> to say message file is removed from FS), offlineimap removes it from the
>> server at the next synchronization.
>> But, when I remove a message from inbox in the same way, the message is
>> copied from server to local maildir at the next synchronization.
>>
>> I think my configuration is good because I can delete a message from
>> Sent folder.
>> Is it a gmail particularity ?
> Yes, if you delete something from a Gmail folder it will not really be
> deleted (until you move it into the Trash or Spam folders).
>
> I think you can set realdelete=True (or a similar config name), to move
> all mails to be deleted to the "Trash" folder thus expunging them
> permanently.
>
> Does this help?
>
> Sebastian





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