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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: adaptive expiry? feature request?
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:45:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvwvtf7z.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjyqsys3.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:41:48 +0000 Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: 

ESF> What I would like is to have an expiry policy that is adaptive, in the
ESF> same way as scoring is.  In fact, I would love to have an expiry time
ESF> that is a function of the score (meaning that active threads, for
ESF> instance, would not expire for quite a long time) and I guess other
ESF> message attributes.  In other words, a more general version of the
ESF> nnmail-expiry-wait-function and nnmail-fancy-expiry-targets functions
ESF> would be quite nice to have!

ESF> Is such a thing possible?  I've searched gnus variables and done a web
ESF> search of sorts but found nothing.  I think it should be possible (maybe
ESF> even straightforward?) to implement but my elisp is not good enough to
ESF> even think about doing this.

I think atomic expiry it's a pretty hard assumption to break in Gnus,
but Lars or others may know better.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-06 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-26 18:41 Eric S Fraga
2013-06-06 15:45 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2013-08-01 16:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-09-04 15:47   ` Eric S Fraga

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