From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54603 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jake Colman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How do I mark messages for deletion? Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:59:28 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <764qxpz6kv.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> References: <76fzh9zdft.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> <768yn1zabn.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067619584 25043 80.91.224.253 (31 Oct 2003 16:59:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:59:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3144@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 31 17:59:42 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFccf-00016o-00 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:59:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AFccZ-0007NN-00; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:59:35 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AFccU-0007NI-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:59:30 -0600 Original-Received: from newjersey.ppllc.com (unknown [65.206.49.195]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C963A008B for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:59:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from colman@localhost) by newjersey.ppllc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA12237; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:59:29 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: newjersey.ppllc.com: colman set sender to colman@ppllc.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Jake X-URL: http://www.ppllc.com In-Reply-To: (Norbert Koch's message of "Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:58:15 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, usg-unix-v) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54603 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54603 >>>>> "NK" == Norbert Koch writes: NK> Jake Colman 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! -- Jake Colman Principia Partners LLC Phone: (201) 209-2467 Harborside Financial Center Fax: (201) 946-0320 902 Plaza Two E-mail: colman@ppllc.com Jersey City, NJ 07311 www.principiapartners.com