From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80709 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Carson Chittom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: automatically set expiry mark Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:05:27 -0600 Message-ID: <4pwr9oem6w.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> References: <4pehvyavbt.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> <87d3bh25ug.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1324562832 31831 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2011 14:07:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:07:12 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28991@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Dec 22 15:07:08 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RdjIY-0007Sa-4q for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:07:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RdjHK-0008UA-5g; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:05:50 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RdjHH-0008Tz-73 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:05:47 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RdjHF-0001Gf-Eo for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:05:46 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RdjHC-0003w3-MW for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:05:42 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RdjHB-0006pJ-CD for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:05:41 +0100 Original-Received: from net25h202.itsd.state.ms.us ([69.60.32.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:05:41 +0100 Original-Received: from carson.chittom by net25h202.itsd.state.ms.us with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:05:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: net25h202.itsd.state.ms.us User-Agent: Gnus/5.110017 (No Gnus v0.17) Emacs/23.3 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hefW9KBPWQKG+3qNO390Em0askE= X-Spam-Score: -7.5 (-------) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80709 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga writes: > Carson Chittom writes: >> What I'd like to do is automatically mark read messages in my Inbox as >> expired, so I don't periodically have to go through and mark, say, a >> hundred of them manually. Is this possible? I looked in the manual at >> what seemed likely in the index, but nothing popped out at me. > > If you type "G c" in the *Group* buffer for the Inbox group, you can > adjust settings to do what you want. In particular, look for: > > ,---- > | [X] Automatic Expire > | All articles that are read will be marked as expirable. > | > | [X] Expire Wait: [Value Menu] 14 > | When to expire. More > `---- Where is this saved if the interface is used? I'd rather put it in with all the rest of my Gnus configuration. Am I reading the manual correctly that this is equivalent to putting the following in ~/.gnus.el? ,----- | (setq gnus-parameters | '(("nnimap+MSPB:Inbox" | (auto-expire . t) | (expiry-wait . 14)))) `----- As I read it, the difference between auto-expire and total-expire is that the former only marks read articles as expirable (and they are then expired according to expiry-wait or nnmail-expiry-wait), whereas the latter immediately expires read articles (either deleting them, or if set up, moving them to the place specified by expiry-target or nnmail-expiry-target). Is that correct?