Benjamin Slade <sl...@jnanam.net> writes: > Eric Abrahamsen <e...@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... _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
