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Deleting emails
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Description
How do you delete the emails you want, and not just mark em with a label as "Deleted".
How to use the "Purge message" (imap_expurge) so I delete the messages?
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the email node's handling of the IMAP operation named imap_expurge and check the existing Node-RED node documentation or examples. Determine the supported steps for permanently deleting selected messages rather than only applying a "Deleted" label. Done means the procedure and any relevant limitations are documented clearly.
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Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100