From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80449 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Expiring with gnus-parameters in .gnus Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:02:22 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <874nypnr0h.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320073466 22085 80.91.229.12 (31 Oct 2011 15:04:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:04:26 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28735@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Oct 31 16:04:22 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 1RKtPR-0005d8-Rk for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:04:22 +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 1RKtOV-0007Ss-RH; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:03:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RKtOT-0007Sd-UE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:03:21 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RKtOR-0005sD-Cc for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:03:21 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RKtOO-0001Ez-Ik for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:03:16 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RKtOI-00055u-TF for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:03:10 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.179.64]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:03:10 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:03:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ld17n9h2sUAI2B5voBKfOZtvmRQ= X-Spam-Score: -6.1 (------) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80449 Archived-At: When you use gnus-parameters to expire certain groups like in the code below: ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- (setq gnus-parameters '(("_ex$" ;; '(("[Ss]pam[0-9]*$\\|_ex$" (total-expire . t) (expiry-wait . 18)) ("_tr$" (total-expire . t) (expiry-wait . 90) (gnus-visible-headers (concat gnus-visible-headers "\\|^X-Spam-Report:.*_FARAWAY_")) ("_$" (total-expire . t) (expiry-wait . 340))))) ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- Do you actually have to open each group for the expiry to happen? It appears so, since I see and expiry action take place when I open such groups. If that is true, then is there some other mechanism that will expire groups without having to actually open each group?