Re: Can I mark a mail as read and expired at the same time?

[Trevor Murphy <trevor.m.murphy@gmail.com>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Yes, it does make sense.  Maybe the solution is to create your own
> command that first marks the article as read and then marks it as
> expirable?  Something along the lines of
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (defun esf/mark-read-and-expirable () 
>     (interactive)
>     (gnus-summary-mark-as-read)
>     (gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable 1))
> #+end_src

Thanks for the suggestion!  Unfortunately in my testing it still doesn't
do what I want.

After doing some digging, I've found the following:

1. The command `gnus-summary-expire-articles' will call
   `gnus-summary-update-info' before expiring articles *if* total-expire
   is on.  That sends the "read" mark from Gnus to Gmail before expiring
   the articles, which is why I was getting the desired behavior from
   total-expire.

2. Sounds like an interesting path would be a function like yours that
   marks as read, *then calls update-info*, then marks as expirable.
   But after this afternoon of reading source code I'm pooped and not up
   for making sure that my call to update-info doesn't accidentally mess
   with other articles.

3. Instead I "solved" the problem by changing my expectations.  I just
   set expiry-wait to 0 and use auto-expiry.  Any read articles I want
   to disappear will go away tomorrow.  That's good enough for me.

Thanks again for your interest and pointers.

-- 
Trevor Murphy
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