From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80710 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: automatically set expiry mark Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:22:06 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87aa6kd6up.fsf@dod.no> References: <4pehvyavbt.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> <87d3bh25ug.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <4pwr9oem6w.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1324563767 6519 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2011 14:22:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:22:47 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28992@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Dec 22 15:22:43 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 1RdjXe-00079C-CD for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:22:42 +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 1RdjXW-00008d-AO; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:22:34 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RdjXU-00008V-Ri for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:22:32 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RdjXH-0001KD-1y for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:22:32 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RdjXF-0004MR-87 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:22:17 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RdjXF-0006uR-4D for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:22:17 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no ([84.208.231.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:22:17 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:22:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2lmCuqQHIYCZWwS+zP8ncJ/fa4g= X-Spam-Score: -7.5 (-------) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80710 Archived-At: >>>>> Carson Chittom : > 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.