From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Prevent mails from being expired
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:11:34 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvayji4p.fsf@building.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1r3wuuys5.fsf@nobis-it.eu> (Stefan Nobis's message of "Sun, 23 Nov 2014 09:06:02 +0100")
Stefan Nobis <stefan-ml@snobis.de> writes:
> I just created a new IMAP mail group and want to put some mails from
> my main inbox into that new group and these mails should never be
> deleted. Usually I open my main inbox, read a mail and then decide to
> move it to the new group.
>
> But my main inbox is configured to auto-expire mails, so once I read a
> mail it is marked as expirable (with a capital E). When I now move
> this mail into the new group, it is still marked as expirable.
>
> When I enter the new group and leave it again, my moved and expirable
> mail will be deleted by the expiry process at once.
Yes, you should remove the "E" mark (with `M-u' or the like) before
moving it, perhaps.
> I thought I did understand the expiry process, but here something
> magic happens. The new group is set to (auto-epxire . nil) via group
> parameters (and according to the documentation the expirable mark
> should be removed on copying or moving to a group in with auto-expire
> is not turned on - but this does not happen) and additionally I set
> (expiry-wait . 'never).
That should probably be
(expiry-wait . never)
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