[imp] Shift-delete feature request

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jens Wahnes <wahnes at uni-koeln.de>:

> On Mon, Nov 30 2015, at 16:40:43 +0100, Jan Schneider wrote:
>
>> You can expunge individual messages too, and we already have a method
>> argument in IMP's API to delete and purge individual message. So it
>> should be rather simple to implement (keyhandler, AJAX API method, help
>> text).
>
> Ah, I wasn't aware of that.  Thanks for pointing that out.  But how
> does it work?  Does this API call do the (re-)setting of \Deleted flags
> and all that?  Or is there some extended IMAP command that I'm not
> familiar with which allows this to be done easily?

UID EXPUNGE.  Part of UIDPLUS extension (which almost every IMAP  
server implements).

michael


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