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soma@cs.unm.edu (Anil B. Somayaji) writes:

> I have a friend who gets a lot of email, uses gnus, and wants to
> regularly archive her mail.  For example, she'd like messages in
> group1 archived every month, group2 archived every year, etc.  When
> entering a group, you would just see the un-archived messages by
> default, but there should be some easy way to look at the older
> archives.
> 
> Is there an easy way to do this in gnus?  Right now we're manually
> creating new groups and moving old messages into those groups - of
> course, this is not very pleasant.  Anyone have any better
> suggestions?

Maybe nnmail-expiry-target helps. See info node "Expiring Mail" for
the details.

ShengHuo