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mere user (emacs-user) wrote : Re: [Bug 671940] Re: vm-imap-retrieved-messages

set to nil and expunged manually as suggested below. it didn't
eliminate the X-VM-IMAP-Retrieved from the inbox file, and new entries
are still added to it. E

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Uday Reddy <email address hidden> wrote:
> Can you turn off vm-imap-expunge-after-retrieving and issue
> vm-expunge-imap-messages manually?  See if that works right?
>
> Cheers,
> Uday
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> Title:
>  vm-imap-retrieved-messages
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> Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs:
>  Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>  The variable vm-imap-retrieved-messages stores a list of all the messages retrieved from the IMAP server.  This list grows and grows endlessly.  Stuffing this data into the folder header becomes time-consuming.
>
> The list should be trimmed before stuffing into the folder, based on the messages currently known to be on the IMAP server.
>
> But it is not clear if this is good enough for folders that use IMAP servers as spools.
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