From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/85515 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Prevent mails from being expired Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:11:34 +1100 Message-ID: <87fvayji4p.fsf@building.gnus.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422245538 29225 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2015 04:12:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 04:12:18 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M33757@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jan 26 05:12:15 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YFb25-00029m-H3 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 05:12:13 +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 1YFb22-0000iZ-Px; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 22:12:10 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1YFb21-0000iK-Ly for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 22:12:09 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YFb1z-00021x-VC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 25 Jan 2015 22:12:09 -0600 Original-Received: from smtp.syd.comcen.com.au ([203.23.236.77]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YFb1x-000414-TA for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 05:12:06 +0100 Original-Received: from building.gnus.org ([27.96.197.126]) by smtp.syd.comcen.com.au (8.13.4/8.12.9) with ESMTP id t0Q4Bctx094545 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:11:39 +1100 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Nobis's message of "Sun, 23 Nov 2014 09:06:02 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-comcen-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-comcen-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-comcen-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=0.1, required 4, AWL -0.00, BAYES_50 0.00, RDNS_NONE 0.10) X-comcen-MailScanner-From: larsi@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:85515 Archived-At: Stefan Nobis 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) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/