From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83279 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: adaptive expiry? feature request? Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:45:52 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87fvwvtf7z.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87zjyqsys3.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370533848 12232 80.91.229.3 (6 Jun 2013 15:50:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 15:50:48 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31546@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jun 06 17:50:48 2013 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 1UkcSc-0003fj-Is for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:50:46 +0200 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 1UkcS4-0005HQ-Vb; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:50:13 -0500 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 1UkcS2-0005Gn-0P for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:50:10 -0500 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 1UkcRw-0006Ey-RV for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:50:09 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UkcRv-0008Up-G8 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UkcRv-000309-4L for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net ([72.93.26.80]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:50:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EprKK6qEQnefPt6F6f94XFFta5M= X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83279 Archived-At: On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:41:48 +0000 Eric S Fraga 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