Re: automarking as "E", and auto-check of rss feeds

[david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg)]

> Is there anyway in which every mailing list that I have can be set to
> 'auto-expire' and just delete old mails that are expirable without
> intervention from myself please? I have this set in my .gnus -
> ╭────
> │(setq nnmail-expiry-wait 35)
> ╰────
> which doesn't seem to be working.

Take a look at the info page for Group Parameters, in particular auto-expire and total-expire.  You need one of them set for that expiry wait (which can also be set on a per group basis through parameters) to have any effect.  Which you choose (auto vs total) seems to me to be a matter of taste.  I prefer total-expire for what it's worth.  If you use topics in the Group buffer, you can set the parameters on a topic instead of per group and all the groups in the topic get those settings.  Finally, expiry only works if the expiry function gets called.  I think it happens by default on group exit but I disabled that a long time ago - probably over a decade.  I don't remember why.

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Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net