You nailed it. Mine uses Purge. Purge is a common programming term so you
can bet that the reason they use that word is it's coming from the
programmers writing the email client. Expunge sounds more like a legal term
than anything to do with software and I'm surprised that it became an official
command as programmers would far more likely think of purge first. Perhaps a
non-programmer came up with that one.
Friday, April 2, 2010, 6:00:15 PM, you wrote:
> --On Friday, April 2, 2010 5:30 PM -0700 Nybbles2Byte
> <nybbles2byte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Okay, I am sure this is stupid question but how do you really delete
>> messages. When I delete messages in my email client and then log in to
>> see the mailbox through a web program I see that the message are marked
>> as deleted but still there.
> That's what "delete" does. It marks the messages deleted. You can still
> undelete them, in case of error.
> Then the command "expunge" removes all messages marked deleted. For no
> known reason some clients call this "purge" instead of "expunge".
> Joseph Brennan
> Columbia University Information Technology
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