From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83444 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: expiring with gnus-parameters Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:38:37 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <877ghao0wy.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372686126 26427 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2013 13:42:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 13:42:06 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31704@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jul 01 15:42:06 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UteMj-00035L-M7 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:42:02 +0200 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 1UteLK-0002QY-UD; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:40:34 -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 1UteLI-0002QG-3t for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:40:32 -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 1UteLF-0002ID-Ui for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:40:31 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UteLD-0000u4-Ur for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UteLC-0001hG-Bj for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:40:26 +0200 Original-Received: from z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com ([65.50.57.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:40:26 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:40:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/vhupf/8QY+O0eECfFKiNgV44TI= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83444 Archived-At: This is a re-post from the gnus.user list. I didn't get any answers there and hoped maybe someone here would have some idea how to do this. ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- From: Harry Putnam Subject: expiring with gnus-parameters Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:35:36 -0400 (3 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes ago) Message-ID: <87ppv79inb.fsf@newsguy.com> I've used "gnus-parameters" for yrs to run total-expire with specific expiry-wait periods on certain groups... but there is always this problem. Gnus wants me to actually open and close these groups before the expiry takes place. Some of the groups I rarely if ever have need of opening unless just to run the expiry code. I want to keep the backlog... just in case I should need to use it. I want to just let these groups move along by themselves and find some way to trick them into thinking the group has been opened and closed so total-expire will be run, or maybe just run code periodically (on auto pilot) that opens and closes the groups. Maybe there is some completely different way to do this: Can anyone tell me how to arrange for certain groups to be opened and closed with no human intervention and for that to be automated? The result I'm after is to have certain groups maintain a specific backlog of messages like 90 days worth or whatever, and to periodically total-expire them down to the actual 90 day backlog, without me actually doing any intervention.