Re: Marking a whole imap-Folder as Expired

["Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>]

Hi Greg

Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com> writes:

> "Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch> writes:

>> Therefore, I have several messages in my inboxes marked with "O" (old),
>> which excludes them from the expiry-process. Back in Gnus I have to
>> manually set them to expired with by hitting "E" one after the other. 
>
> Not what you asked, but I do this totally differently.
>
> I use gnus as my main mail reader, and also thunderbird, osx/Mail.app,
> and iphone/Mail.  While my mailinglist mail is like news, I consider my
> INBOX to be not like news, and basically only want to explicitly delete
> things.
>
> So, I have all the non-gnus MUAs set up to delete by moving to
> nnimap+[foo]:Trash (vs "Deleted Messages" with whitespace), and then
>
> Then I bind 'd' to
>
> (defun gdt-gnus-move-to-trash ()
>   (interactive)
>   (gnus-summary-move-article nil gdt-trash-newsgroup))
>
> and delete messages when I'm done with them.

Its interesting to read how other people cope with the ideosyncratisms
of Gnus (compared to other mail readers). I do it differently. Since I'm
using Gnus I got used to treat emails like news, and I like to have them
out of sight after I have read them. Therefore it annoys me to see all
my old mails when I'm in K9. In Gnus I organize my mails in a GTD-style
structure. If it takes more than two minutes, I mark it unread and shift
it to a "processing" folder: Action, Waiting, Review, Urgent etc. This
workflow is interrupted in K9 where all my expired mails become visible
again. Therefore I have my inboxes (the workflow-folders as well as the
main inbox) set to auto-expire immediately with an "Expired" folder as
the expiry-target. Just to have expired mails out of sight for K9. The
"Expired" folder keeps mails for 14 days, this is the expected
time-frame where it is possible that I have to visit that mail again due
to follow-ups or reference purposes. After that they expire into a spool
folder where they are fetched by fetchmail (POP) (and deleted from the
server) to one of my local machines where they are stored in an
ever-growing archive.

> This whole scheme is built around the notion that I want reading the
> INBOX on my phone to be useful, which for me means that all mailinglist
> mail (and anything that gets even 1 point with spamassassin) does not
> go to INBOX.

I split mails similarly. The major INBOX is only for personal mail,
which is then manually "processed" into the work-flow folders.
Mailing-lists I don't access with my mobile or tablet. I only read them
with Gnus. If I like to read them en route I ssh into the PC. 

Greetings,

Sven