IMAP4 and deleting a message

Martin v. Löwis martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Dec 8 18:10:47 EST 2003


Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez at apple.com> writes:

>   Can someone hook me up?

I think IMAP does not have the notion of immediately deleting
messages. Instead, you should set the \Deleted flags, e.g. though

  M.store(num, "+flags", r"\Deleted")

Then, deleted message will be expunged either as the result of
invoking .expunge(), or as a result of invoking .close().

Regards,
Martin





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