diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7a5bbc0..f571840 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ Connection Events
 
 * **mail**(< _integer_ >numNewMsgs) - Emitted when new mail arrives in the currently open mailbox.
 
-* **deleted**(< _integer_ >seqno) - Emitted when a message is deleted from another IMAP connection's session. `seqno` is the sequence number (instead of the unique UID) of the message that was deleted. If you are caching sequence numbers, all sequence numbers higher than this value **MUST** be decremented by 1 in order to stay synchronized with the server and to keep correct continuity.
+* **expunge**(< _integer_ >seqno) - Emitted when a message was expunged externally. `seqno` is the sequence number (instead of the unique UID) of the message that was expunged. If you are caching sequence numbers, all sequence numbers higher than this value **MUST** be decremented by 1 in order to stay synchronized with the server and to keep correct continuity.
 
 * **update**(< _integer_ >seqno, < _object_ >info) - Emitted when message metadata (e.g. flags) changes externally.
 
diff --git a/lib/Connection.js b/lib/Connection.js
index 60b6172..6496497 100644
--- a/lib/Connection.js
+++ b/lib/Connection.js
@@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ Connection.prototype._resUntagged = function(info) {
     if (this._box.messages.total > 0)
       --this._box.messages.total;
     if (!this._curReq)
-      this.emit('deleted', info.num);
+      this.emit('expunge', info.num);
   } else if (type === 'ok') {
     if (this.state === 'connected' && !this._curReq)
       this._login();