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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: automatically set expiry mark
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:27:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3bh25ug.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4pehvyavbt.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> (Carson Chittom's message of "Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:49:26 -0600")

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

> Dear Gnusians,
>
> For various boring reasons I won't get into, sometimes I use Gnus (via
> nnimap) to read my mail from our Exchange server, and sometimes I use
> Outlook.  Outlook starts to slow down immensely if my Inbox gets too
> large, so I regularly move old messages to an archive folder.
>
> In my ~/.gnus.el, I've got 
>
> ;; Make expired messages go to Archive folder
> (setq nnmail-expiry-target "nnimap+MSPB:Archive")
>
> so I just manually mark older messages as expired.
>
> What I'd like to do is automatically mark read messages in my Inbox as
> expired, so I don't periodically have to go through and mark, say, a
> hundred of them manually.  Is this possible?  I looked in the manual at
> what seemed likely in the index, but nothing popped out at me.

If you type "G c" in the *Group* buffer for the Inbox group, you can
adjust settings to do what you want.  In particular, look for:

,----
| [X] Automatic Expire
|     All articles that are read will be marked as expirable.
| 
| [X] Expire Wait: [Value Menu] 14
|     When to expire. More
`----

(not contiguous in the buffer).

HTH,
eric

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1 + No Gnus v0.18



  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-21 17:27 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 [this message]
2011-12-21 18:29   ` Steinar Bang
2011-12-22 14:05   ` Carson Chittom
2011-12-22 14:22     ` Steinar Bang
2011-12-21 18:20 ` Steinar Bang

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