Re: expiry-target

[Rod Whitby <list.ding@rwhitby.net>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> Rob,

That's Rod to my friends :-)
         ^
> Sorry to have steadfastly ignored your patches.  My reasons were, that
> I have very little experience using patches, the few times I have it
> has been directly from a gnus article buffer to the appropriate el
> files, via the `O p' command (save to a pipe) piping to patch.

At least now I know that my posts are getting through :-) I was hoping
that I would get a "yep, we're happy with that patch and will apply it
to the next version" response, but I now notice that Lars is now
responding to a backlog of mail.  Is Lars the only CVS committer, or
is there a group (like for XEmacs patch reviewers) ?  Is ding@gnus.org
the best place to post patches.  Is there are specific subject header
required ?

> In this case patch tells me it sees only garbage in the patch.
> Probably something I'm doing wrong.

I'm probably not formatting the patch properly so that it can be
automatically applied.  Hopefully, someone can show me the best way to
submit patches.  I don't have CVS access (firewall issue), so I work
from RCS'd snapshots.

> Secondly in your several posts on this, including patches, you have
> steadfastly refused to supply an example of how this works or what it
> looks like.  Being a lisp illiterate, I need to see examples to see
> how it is supposed to work.

No problem.  I didn't realise I was being asked, so I didn't realise I
was steadfastly refusing :-)

In my group parameters for my nnml:INBOX folder, I have:

((expiry-wait . immediate)
 (expiry-target . "nnml:DELETED")
 (dummy
  (progn
    (local-set-key "d"
		   'gnus-summary-put-mark-as-expirable-next)
    nil)))

So the 'd' (for delete) key marks the message as expirable, and the
messages are expired as soon as I leave the group (the immediate value
for expiry-wait).  You don't need that if you're happy with the 'E'
binding for expiry or can retrain your fingers after they used VM for
a number of years.  Now "expired" means "moved to the nnml:DELETED
folder" for this group.  This is analogous to the "Trash" folder in
Netscape.

In my group parameters for my nnml:DELETED folder, I have:

((expiry-wait . 31)
 (expiry-target . delete))

So I keep deleted mail for a month, and then it goes into the big bit
bucket in the sky.  Just like the "Empty Trash" in Netscape, except it
happens automatically (and incrementally instead of all-at-once).

If you need further help, feel free to email me.

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