On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 06:06 -0700, William Morgan wrote:
> Reformatted excerpts from Reid Thompson's message of 2009-04-17:
> > So, in order to actually manage my email, I have to utilize a
> > different email client to delete unwanted mail - essentially doing the
> > same work twice, or am I missing something?
> 
> For the two special cases of "physically" removing messages marked as
> deleted or spam, you can use sup-sync-back, which is a batch operation
> operating on an entire mail source at a time. Currently it only applies
> to mbox sources and can't be run while Sup is also running.
> 
> > Could sup-sync --changed be incorporated into sup, and triggered
> > automatically by sup itself?
> 
> You could certainly do that via Sup's hook mechanism, but it's a very
> slow operation (it has to scan over the entire mailbox).

OK -- so to 'manage' an imap store, i'd need to setup a mechanism to
fetch all the email to a local store, deleting from the imap store, and
then do something like schedule an overnight run of sup-sync-back,
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