Re: gnus INBOX housekeeping, kept (copies of) mail lying around

[Gijs Hillenius]

[...] hope snipping this much is ok..

>>
>> If my Gnus (5.13, part of Debian's Emacs) copies messages back into
>> the INBOX, does fancy-split set the delete/expunge IMAP flag to
>> these?
>>
>> Because, if it does not flag them for deletion, would that perhaps
>> explain why the nightly Cyrus pruning does not do anything? Cyrus is
>> set to remove from disk all messages that have been flagged for
>> deletion for 3 days.
>
> No, no flags are set. From IMAP's point of view, splitting is simply a
> MOVE operation. Sorry, I misspoke earlier when I said the messages
> were *copied* back into the same group. They're actually MOVEd. That
> means there's only ever one copy of the message, but it gets a new
> UUID number each time.
>
> No new flags are set at all.

So, these message come back int the INBOX, but are not shown anymore by
Gnus. They are also not marked as deletable and that would explain why
Cyrus does not remove them from disk, yes?