[mew-int 2855] Re: How can I delete invalid messages safely?

[Will]

As far as I understand it, an "invalid" message is simply one in your
local mail folder whose existence Mew has not yet verified on the IMAP
server.  Once Mew updates the folder containing the "invalid" message,
it's no longer invalid, and if you delete or refile the messages, the IMAP
server will be updated as well.

I guess I'm not clear on what you want...

From: vvoody <wxj.g.sh at example.com>
Subject: Re: [mew-int 2853] Re: How can I delete invalid messages safely?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:45:19 +0800 (CST)

> From: Will <gardellawg at example.com>
> Subject: [mew-int 2853] Re: How can I delete invalid messages safely?
> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:07:05 -0400 (EDT)
> Message-ID: <20100323.040705.235180930.gardellawg at example.com>
> 
>> Hi vvoody,
>> 
>> If you sync the %[Gmail]/All mail folder by pressing s, the messages will
>> no longer appear as "invalid," and deleting or refiling them will then
>> be correctly applied to your messages on the gmail server.
>> Unfortunately, the sync can, of course, take a while if you have not
>> done it recently.
>> 
> 
> Although the invalid messages disappears, Mew retrieves the messages after 
> pressing 's' and choosing 'update'...
> 
> What's up?
> 
>> Best regards,
>> Will
>> 
>> From: vvoody <wxj.g.sh at example.com>
>> Subject: [mew-int 2852] How can I delete invalid messages safely?
>> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:58:22 +0800 (CST)
>> 
>>> Hi guys ;-)
>>> 
>>> Gmail is my daily email service provider. I have still subscribed the
>>> 'All mail', so after reading the messages in the '%inbox', I can refile
>>> them to '%[Gmail]/All mail' just like 'Archive' in Gmail's web page.
>>> 
>>> But there will still be invalid messages in the '%[Gmail]/All mail' 
>>> after doing the operation above. And there will be more and more messages
>>> in the folder. I just wanna 'Archive' them to the Gmail IMAP server and
>>> I do not want to see and need them off-line.
>>> 
>>> According the info, it talks about deleting invalid message off-line.
>>> I can't figure out whether the `s' operation is safe or not. Most of 
>>> the time I use Mew online and refile the messages in '%inbox' by `o' & `x'
>>> not `lx'.
>>> 
>>> Can I just remove the messages files in the directory like 
>>> '~/Mail/#imap/foobar at example.com@imap.gmail.com#imap/[Gmail]/All Mail'
>>> 
>>> or is there any way to not show the invalid messages in '%[Gmail]/All Mail'
>>> and keep my refiled messages safely in the IMAP server?
>>> 
>>> Best regard!