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.
next prev parent 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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