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Re: multi-email gnus setup questions
From: |
Eric Abrahamsen |
Subject: |
Re: multi-email gnus setup questions |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Dec 2015 12:08:13 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Benjamin Slade <slade@jnanam.net> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>>> Any ideas where something could be going wrong?
>>
>> I think it's probably edebug time. Try instrumenting the
>> my-expire-gmail-imap-message function, and maybe, for good measure,
>> gnus-group-expire-articles-1 as well. Expire some articles, and step
>> through the functions, and just see what's going on. My guess is it will
>> become clear pretty quickly what's going wrong. I hope!
>
> After many hours of wrestling with this, it turns out to have nothing to
> do with Gnus. It's a quirk about Gmail's mail arrangement, and the way
> that mbsync works. It seems I had a similar problem a few years ago
> when I used mbsync for mu4e for a little while (though I have no memory
> of this), and so my Google searches ultimately led me back to my own old
> question (and, fortunately, solution):
> http://sourceforge.net/p/isync/mailman/message/31638141/ :---
>
> The trick is to make a separate mbsync channel and sync the
> Trash/Bin first.
>
> Though, ultimately (actually in the course of trying to find a solution)
> I ended up switching to using fancy-expire (keyed to email addresses)
> instead, as the other method doesn't work for virtual groups.
Oof. That doesn't sound like much fun, but I'm glad you got it sorted. I
have to say, imap got a lot easier to work with when I switched away
from Gmail...
- multi-email gnus setup questions, Benjamin Slade, 2015/12/21
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- Re: multi-email gnus setup questions, Benjamin Slade, 2015/12/23
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- Re: multi-email gnus setup questions, Jens Klöcker, 2015/12/23
- Re: multi-email gnus setup questions, Eric Abrahamsen, 2015/12/23
- Re: multi-email gnus setup questions, Benjamin Slade, 2015/12/23
- Re: multi-email gnus setup questions, Eric Abrahamsen, 2015/12/24
- Re: multi-email gnus setup questions, Benjamin Slade, 2015/12/24
- Re: multi-email gnus setup questions, Eric Abrahamsen, 2015/12/24
- Re: multi-email gnus setup questions, Benjamin Slade, 2015/12/26
- Re: multi-email gnus setup questions,
Eric Abrahamsen <=
- Re: multi-email gnus setup questions, B.V. Raghav, 2015/12/27
- Re: multi-email gnus setup questions, B.V. Raghav, 2015/12/24
- Re: multi-email gnus setup questions, Eric Abrahamsen, 2015/12/24