From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69459 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: total-expire based on msg count Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:30:33 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87k4t4w3vq.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87bpeucrw3.fsf@newsguy.com> <87634s5c4n.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269286271 2142 80.91.229.12 (22 Mar 2010 19:31:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:31:11 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17854@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Mar 22 20:31:07 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtnL3-0001gV-6B for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:31:01 +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 1NtnL2-0003AT-1Y; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:31:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NtnL0-0003AE-TI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:30:58 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtnKz-0001Ii-Ag for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:30:58 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1NtoH3-0005J4-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:30:57 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtnKv-0001a8-Pf for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:30:53 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:30:53 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:30:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+KC1WU77QTLmDpVDTWuuadqcBNY= X-Spam-Score: -2.7 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69459 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:20:28 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: > > HP> I've since converted those groups to nnml, where gnus gets more > HP> annoyed if I do things behind its back, but it looks like it might be > HP> harder to get the same result using gnus native functionality. > > I think you'll be happier with nnmaildir. It's designed for sharing and > Gnus doesn't mind. So you could have your external script delete > messages without a Gnus problem. That may be true... I tried nnmaildir once quite some time ago and hated the really clunky file names. If you handle any of it by hand those names get to be a pain in the butt very soon.