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From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: automatically set expiry mark
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:22:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aa6kd6up.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4pwr9oem6w.fsf@mspb.ms.gov>

>>>>> Carson Chittom <carson.chittom@mspb.ms.gov>:

> Where is this saved if the interface is used?

In the group parameters of the group, in .newsrc.eld.

> I'd rather put it in with all the rest of my Gnus configuration.  Am I
> reading the manual correctly that this is equivalent to putting the
> following in ~/.gnus.el?

> ,-----
> | (setq gnus-parameters
> |       '(("nnimap+MSPB:Inbox"
> |         (auto-expire . t)
> |         (expiry-wait . 14))))        
> `-----

Can't say.  I don't use gnus-parameters myself.

> As I read it, the difference between auto-expire and total-expire is
> that the former only marks read articles as expirable (and they are
> then expired according to expiry-wait or nnmail-expiry-wait), whereas
> the latter immediately expires read articles (either deleting them, or
> if set up, moving them to the place specified by expiry-target or
> nnmail-expiry-target).  Is that correct?

Well, that's how I read the docs, as well.  I can vouch for that
total-expire works as you describe it.






  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-22 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-21 13:49 Carson Chittom
2011-12-21 17:27 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-12-21 18:29   ` Steinar Bang
2011-12-22 14:05   ` Carson Chittom
2011-12-22 14:22     ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2011-12-21 18:20 ` Steinar Bang

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