From: Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>
Subject: Re: How do I mark messages for deletion?
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:59:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <764qxpz6kv.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vz8yn12yco.fsf@redqueen.bytechase.cx> (Norbert Koch's message of "Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:58:15 +0100")
>>>>> "NK" == Norbert Koch <viteno@xemacs.org> writes:
NK> Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:
>> Will gnus delete mail without an 'E' expiry mark? Or is t only the expiry
>> process that does it?
NK> If you activate total-expire for a group, every read (and unticked)
NK> message is put through the expiry mechanism.
>> While on the topic, I have never been clear on the difference between
>> auto-expire and total-expire. Can you maybe explain?
NK> Hmm, I haven't looked at the code, so I can't provide more information
NK> as the manual "(gnus)Expiring Mail":
NK> ,----
NK> | In a nutshell, "auto-expire" means that Gnus hits `E' for
NK> | you when you select an article. And "total-expire" means that Gnus
NK> | considers all articles as expirable that are read. So, in addition to
NK> | the articles marked `E', also the articles marked `r', `R', `O', `K',
NK> | `Y' and so on are considered expirable.
NK> `----
Hmmmm. So you use total-expire and only tick those you really want to keep.
I guess that makes sense. And you can always manully press 'E' to
(eventually) expire messages that are not in a totall-expire (or auto-expire)
group.
I think I got it. Thanks!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-31 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-31 14:31 Jake Colman
2003-10-31 14:42 ` Norbert Koch
2003-10-31 15:38 ` Jake Colman
2003-10-31 15:58 ` Norbert Koch
2003-10-31 16:59 ` Jake Colman [this message]
2003-10-31 17:26 ` David S Goldberg
2003-10-31 17:41 ` Norbert Koch
2003-10-31 14:58 ` Jody Klymak
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